Quotes About Mindfulness

Thinking is a very natural process, but we are so easily conditioned by our thinking and give too much value to it. Maezumi Roshi

I put the word "problems" in quotation marks, because difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.

Fundamentally, Zen is a way of seeing clearly who we are and what our life is, and a way of living based on that clear vision.

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

Focus your entire energy very quietly, very softly, on awakening and realization.

Awakening is remembering to enjoy. The more delicate the enjoyment, the greater the awakening.

Your life belongs to what you have awakened to.

Peace is a conscious choice.

We must stop even thinking of standing up straight. To think of it is fatal, for it commits us to the operation of an established habit of standing wrong. We must find an act within our power which is disconnected from any thought about standing. We must start to do another thing which on one side inhibits our falling into the customary bad position and on the other side is the beginning of a series of acts which may lead into the correct posture.[2] The hard-drinker

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

They think too little who talk too much.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

others.We must be good stewards of our physical and mental health while at the same time carefully avoiding the things that can trip us up. In these ways we accomplish our first strategy to live well till the end.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.

Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.

With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with.

All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to yourself.