Quotes About Mindfulness

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.

As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.

When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.

People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.