Quotes About Mindfulness

Letting go—abandoning, relinquishing—is actually the same mind state as generosity. So the practice of giving deeply influences the feeling tone of our meditation practice, and vice versa.

If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.

When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.

Sit comfortably, in a relaxed way, and close your eyes. As much as possible, let go of analysis and expectation. For ten to fifteen minutes, call to mind something you have done or said that you feel was a kind or good action—a time you were generous, or caring, or contributed to someone's well-being. If something comes to mind, allow the happiness that may come with the remembrance. If nothing comes to mind, gently turn your attention to a quality you like about yourself.

One of the most powerful aspects of delusion, or ignorance, is the belief that what we do does not really matter.

Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

Connecting to your breath when thoughts or images arise is like spotting a friend in a crowd: you don't have to shove everyone else aside or order them to go away; you just direct your attention, your enthusiasm, your interest toward your friend. 'Oh,' you think, 'there's my friend in that crowd. Oh, there's my breath, among those thoughts and feelings and sensations.

Stealth Meditation If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a quick, centering moment—as short as following three breaths—to connect with a deeper sense of yourself.

As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.

The Buddha taught that we can feel pleasure fully, yet without craving or clinging, without defining it as our ultimate happiness. We can feel pain fully without condemning or hating it. And we can experience neutral events by being fully present, so that they are not just fill-in times until something more exciting comes along.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.

What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy.

We have one impermanent experience, and, unable to be at peace as it passes, we reach out and grab for another, The Tibetan Buddhist tradition defines renunciation as accepting what comes into our lives and letting go of what leaves our lives. To renounce in this sense is to come to a state of simple being.

The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength

Equanimity's strength derives from a combination of understanding and trust. It is based on understanding that the conflict and frustration we feel when we can't control the world doesn't come from our inability to do so but rather from the fact that we are trying to control the uncontrollable.

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.

This mirroring quality, whereby we "reteach a thing its loveliness," is one of the greatest attributes of metta. The power of metta enables us to look at people and affirm the rightness of their wish to be happy; it affirms our oneness with them. The power of love reflects both to ourselves and others the manifold possibilities available in each moment.