Quotes About Mindfulness

Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down.

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.

We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.

There can be no [ego] desire if there is no object. The state of no-desire is enlightenment.

The sage is not unconscious; he is fully aware of the Self.

For those in the Self, there is no [separate] seeing—only being.

Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of "I am Self." [There is only Be-ing.]

he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer;

The Dalai Lama has said, "Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a better Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.

The Buddha said anger has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip.

If you accept the idea that many of our most troublesome feelings are in one sense or another illusions, then meditation can be seen as, among other things, a process of dispelling illusions.

This is something that can happen again and again via meditation: accepting, even embracing, an unpleasant feeling can give you a critical distance

Zen is for poets, Tibetan is for artists, and Vipassana is for psychologists.

This is something that can happen again and again via meditation: accepting, even embracing, an unpleasant feeling can give you a critical distance from it that winds up diminishing the unpleasantness.

happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

the problems that meditation can help you overcome often make it hard to meditate in the first place.

There's no doubt that meditation training has allowed some people to become essentially indifferent to what otherwise would have been unbearable pain.

In which case, he was basically saying: 'Look, if there is part of you that isn't under your control and therefore makes you suffer, then do yourself a favor and quit identifying with it.

RAIN. First you Recognize the feeling. Then you Accept the feeling (rather than try to drive it away). Then you Investigate the feeling and its relationship to your body. Finally, the N stands for Nonidentification, or, equivalently, Nonattachment

According to Buddhist philosophy, both the problems we call therapeutic and the problems we call spiritual are a product of not seeing things clearly. What's more, in both cases this failure to see things clearly is in part a product of being misled by feelings. And the first step toward seeing through these feelings is seeing them in the first place—becoming aware of how pervasively and subtly feelings influence our thought and behavior.