Quotes About Mindfulness

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Don't miss your life.

We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

You can't find peace by hiding from life

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things, you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)

Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

If you don't have time for your life, what's the point of it all?