Quotes About Mindfulness

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

The flowering of love is meditation.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product.

The forms of the central and surrounding deities... should not be protruding like a clay statue or cast image, yet neither should they be flat like a painting. In contrast, they should be apparent, yet not truly existent, like a rainbow in the sky or the reflection of the moon in a lake. They should appear as though conjured up by a magician. Clear appearance involves fixing the mind one-pointedly on these forms with a sense of vividness, nakedness, lucidity, and clarity.

Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information … explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

Then it crosses my mind, 'But I'm a very busy woman! I don't have time for a stroke!'

I find that using repetitious sound patterns such as mantra (which literally means "place to rest the mind") is very helpful. By breathing deeply and repeating the phrase In this moment I reclaim my JOY or In this moment I am perfect, whole and beautiful, or I am an innocent and peaceful child of the universe, I shift back into the consciousness of my right mind.

Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.

Peacefulness should be the place we begin rather than the place we try to achieve.

I have found life to be too short to be preoccupied with pain from the past.

To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

What if, when you woke up in the morning, ALL you had LEFT was what you had thanked God for the night before?

Eliminate multitasking to learn faster and think better.

Margin is having the pace and space in your day to allow real life to happen. Too many of us run at a pace that is not only unhealthy physically but damaging relationally. We go-go-go, telling ourselves there are just not enough hours in the day, when we really need to be slowing down and enjoying the journey just as much as we anticipate enjoying the destination when we arrive.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

the looniness of the long distance runner - pounding along country lanes, so anxious to lop off seconds he never stops to marvel at a field of buttercups or a flock of geese against the sky.

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.

Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.