Quotes About Mindfulness

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

Meditation is the best means of elongating life

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

You won't understand life and death until you're ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.