Quotes About Mindfulness

Don't think more further, Try to do simultaneously

Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.

In Buddhism, consciousness is central because all phenomena are realized to be mere appearances to consciousness that have no independent existence.

It takes no deep insight to see that the source of both our well-being and our maladies lies within our own hearts and minds. To change our experience of life we must inevitably change our hearts and minds, or rather our heart/minds.

The sequence between shamatha and vipashyana makes perfect sense: first refine your powers of attention, then use them to explore and purify the mind, which can be directly examined only through first-person observation.

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

Let go of any conceptual associations you have regarding visual impressions. Let go of preferences or judgments...Your likes and dislikes...Just be present with the shapes and colors...focusing on them with bare attention.

Settling your mind in its natural state entails releasing all grasping, grasping onto the future, and the past, grasping onto cogitations about the present. Letting your awareness rest in its own place, naturally luminous and still.

An indispensable ingredient for spiritual maturation is the cultivation of fortitude: strength, forbearance, and patience.

There's no one-to-one correspondence between outer events and our inner emotional states.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

When attention is impaired, it detracts from everything we do, and when it is well focused, it enhances everything we do.

Within Tibetan Buddhism, shamatha practice maps on to the nine stages of attentional development wherein thoughts gradually subside as concentrative power is increased to the point at which one can effortlessly maintain single-pointed focus on a chosen object for at least four hours. The accomplishment of shamatha is accompanied by a powerful experience of bliss, luminosity, and stillness.

God, the soul, salvation, consciousness, love, free will, and purely spiritual causation may seem far more real to you than elementary particles and energy fields. I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

She would try then not to think too strenuously about her whole life. She would try to live one day at a time, like an alcoholic – drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for your soul to reside in.

He envied her, sensing that she lived each day as if it was her last.

However, if there was a time that Sukumar didn't want to do a lot of push-ups, he didn't force himself. He did two and felt good about keeping the habit alive. Part of this skill is knowing when to back off and do only the baseline.

Celebration will one day be ranked alongside mindfulness and gratitude as daily practices that contribute most to our overall happiness and well-being. If you learn just one thing from my entire book, I hope it's this: Celebrate your tiny successes.