Quotes About Mindfulness

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Take the time to think carefully about the problems and difficulties you are facing at the moment, but never lose yourself in them.

Taking the time for yourself is already a small step towards the brighter future.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

At that time of ecstasy there is no thought of others; there is NO THOUGHT. Thither I go and none may lead.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Life keeps on happening and doesn't need us to think about it. It's constantly arising and ceasing every single moment.

If we want real happiness, the only way it can arise is by letting go of the one who is unhappy. It is not a question of trying to hold on to the one who is happy. Rather, when the unhappy one is relinquished, nothing else remains except the happiness of tranquility and pure awareness.

Contentment with our life as it is brings a feeling of great lightness, for we lose the burden of continually craving for situations and people to be different. Things are as they are. Refusing to accept this creates dukkha and brings pain. It is like pushing against a sealed door. We push and we push until our hands hurt, but we cannot open it. If we are wise, we accept that this is simply how it is. The door is sealed, and it is perfectly all right that it is so.

At the beginning of each meditation, we ask ourselves: "Am I having thoughts of ill-will? Doubt? Restlessness and worry? Am I feeling lazy and sleepy? Is my mind filled with desires?" If so, we try to drop these obstacles, using the antidotes of loving-kindness and of calming the mind, remembering that there is nothing to gain and everything to get rid of.

When we bring the past to mind, it is then the present. When we bring the future to mind, that also becomes the present. So what we are doing is not only putting boundaries around three separate selves, but we are also putting boundaries around time and splitting it into three parts as well.

Everything that comes to us through our senses comes from the world, but the inner experience that comes to us through meditation is not dependent on worldly matters. Once we are able to experience the joy of full concentration, we will find that this in itself is an automatic antidote to desire.

In another sutta, he speaks about the prerequisites for the practice of meditation. The first is to know our own dukkha, to recognize where it comes from, and how it operates within our own lives. The second is to gain confidence in the teaching, to realize that we can actually take this path. The third is to experience joy at the opportunity we have been given. Only when all three are present will meditation bear fruit.

If we sit down with the idea, "Oh dear, another meditation session, I suppose I must stick it out," we will never be able to do it. There must be a feeling of strength and uplift in the mind. Meditation will enhance both, but we have to bring them with us in the first place.

There is no future, there is no past. Everything is now, and we are completely transparent; we have no solidity. We only look as if we had.

Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.

The path the Buddha taught and is explaining to Po??hap›da in this sutta has to be followed step by step. First comes morality, then guarding the sense-doors, mindfulness and clear comprehension, contentment, letting go of the hindrances, and — only after these — the first meditative absorption.

To be in the present is actually to be in eternity.

when the words we speak or write come from inner experience and are heartfelt, they are always imbued with "trembling for the welfare of beings.

The goal of the Buddha's teaching is Nibb?na (Sanskrit: Nirv??a). Literally translated, that means "not burning," or in other words, the loss of all passions.

It is well worth our while to check out need against greed, and see where that takes us.