Quotes About Mindfulness

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.

Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.

The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.

Don't try to steer the river.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

Everything I need now is here

We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

Love eliminates fear. Love eliminates anxiety.