Quotes About Mindfulness

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

Meditation means ultimate freedom within you.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

You are all the Buddha.

One who is constantly resting within himself is capable of endless activity.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.