Quotes About Mindfulness

Most of the time we are trying to make the good things last, or we are thinking about replacing them with something even better in the future, or we are sunk in the past, reminiscing about happier times. Ironically, we never truly appreciated the experience for which we are nostalgic because we were too busy clinging to our hopes and fears at the time.

If there is no blind hope, there is also no disappointment. If one knows that everything is impermanent, one does not grasp, and if one does not grasp, one will not think in terms of having or lacking, and therefore one lives fully.

It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.

If we know, even a little bit, that some of our familiar concepts, feelings, and objects exist only as a dream, we develop a much better sense of humour. Recognizing the humour in our situation prevents suffering. We still experience emotions, but they can no longer play tricks on us or pull the wool over our eyes.

Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As

it looks dualistic, but it has that ability to liberate you from the bondage of dualism.

Emptiness is consciousness itself.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

I awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour the world. This makes it hard to plan my day.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating."

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

Just think before you complain about stuff other people would love to have.

You're trying to prevent something that's already happened, said Kaspian-Lee calmly.

if we want to avoid suffering, we must start with ourselves, because all suffering comes from our own desires.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things…Choose a place where you won't do very much harm and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did...

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy.

If you pass life by it's jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you're frightened it's all right--that's no harm; fear is an emotion.

There are moments when the inner life actually "pays," when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.  Such moments are still rare in the West; that they come at all promises a fairer future.

Passion is sanity.

Nothing ever happens to me," She reflected.