Quotes About Mindfulness

Why be unhappy about something if you can do something about it? If you can't do anything about it, why be unhappy about it?

To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.

Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism— a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.

Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.

When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.

Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.

When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

Can you imagine a mind state in which there is no bitter, condemning judgement of oneself or of others? This mind does not see the world in terms of good and bad,might and wrong, good and evil; it sees only 'suffering and the end of suffering.

By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vast & unimpeded.

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.

When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.

When we can't let the moment in front of us be what it is (because we're afraid that if it's good, it'll end too soon; if it's bad, it'll go on forever; and if it's neutral, it'll bore us to tears), we're out of balance. Mindfulness restores that balance; we catch our habitual reactions of clinging, condemning, and zoning out, and let them go.

May my practice be dedicated to your well-being.

How many pleasures escape our notice because we think we need big, dramatic sensations to feel alive? Mindfulness can allow us to experience fully the moment in front of us - what Thoreau calls 'the bloom of the present ' - and to wake up from neutral so we don't miss the small, rich moments that add up to a dimensional life.

If I am feeling stupid, angry, jealous, or humiliated, I bring total awareness and acknowledgment to those feelings. I admit my failures and own them. Then I usually start laughing as I realize how small and inconsequential I really am and also how ridiculous my problems are!

All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage

May I be safe. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease.

What arises in our experience is much less important than how we relate to what arises in our experience.

Great fullness of being, which we experience as happiness, can also be described as love. To be undivided and unfragmented, to be completely present, is to love. To pay attention is to