Quotes About Mindfulness

Everything you need to know about life is in one breath.

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

Meditation has been an anchor throughout my life - it helps me feel balance, connected and at peace.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.

Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

Open your eyes, mind and heart to the astonishing miracles of life, to the beauty surrounding you, to the uniqueness of your being, to the wonders you can achieve.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

How many things are there which I do not want.

The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.

The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.

Our real journey in life is interior.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.