Quotes About Mindfulness

When you catch yourself thinking uncharitable thoughts, mentally resolve to stop and send out more kind, encouraging thoughts.

We can recognize the ego as that part of ourself that lives in our historical past, our story, rather than in the present moment.

Place yourself in the egg of light and practice Metta for at least two people whom you will be coming in contact with today or this week.

Keep a journal of thoughts and ideas.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

We must take our whole selves there—mind and heart—as well as our bodies. And we must be there five minutes before prayer starts.

Statio—stopping to collect our hearts and minds before we begin something new—is the sign that we know we are about to do the will of God for the world. We know that we must not go at it when we are scattered of heart.

Yesterday's gone, so has the day before. Don't let's waste today arguing about it.

Nowhere to go, nothing to do … Lost and found in the moment … Just practice this … Maybe here is where we find wholeheartedness and our true freedom.

the way out of the storm and mud of suffering, the way back to freedom on the high edge of strength and courage, is through the power of compassion.

Realizing fully the true nature of place is to talk its language and hold its silence.

The second tenet, bearing witness, calls us to be present with the suffering and joy in the world, as it is, without judgment or any attachment to outcome.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Thinking's all right if you have the time for it.

When we are truly awake and present in ourselves and to each other and the world around us, miracles abound.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

But this is my old game, isn't it? Comparing, judging, evaluating, liking and disliking, approving and disapproving. There are, I sense, inseparable strengths and weaknesses in whatever way you go, and the point ultimately is just to go.

Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.

Presence is not an object. It is the openness that beholds it all.

Basic awareness meditation is really nothing more or less than giving open, nonjudgmental attention to present-moment, non-conceptual experiencing. You don't have to be in the lotus position. This can happen on the city bus.

Awareness by its very nature doesn't need anything to be other than exactly how it is. It doesn't go to war with the way things are, it simply exposes them to the light. It allows everything to undo itself. Awareness is unconditional love, absolute devotion. It accepts everything.

The trick is not to make an idea or a system out of this openness, a new dogma.