Quotes About Mindfulness

I hoped being aware and appreciative would never leave me. I guessed that feeling that way in the moment was appreciation enough.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened.

Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center." — Wayne Muller (Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives)

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath - our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

Sabbath is more than the absence of work; it is not just a day off, when we catch up on television or errands. It is the presence of something that arises when we consecrate a period of time to listen to what is most deeply beautiful, nourishing, or true. It is time consecrated with our attention, our mindfulness, honoring those quiet forces of grace or spirit that sustain and heal us.

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a gift to be opened.

The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

There is more to life," said Gandhi, "than increasing its speed.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false "me" no longer identifies himself with his suffering.