Quotes About Mindfulness

I can't sleep easy if there's an open container of savoury snacks in the house.

Call off the search for a "why", Rachel,' she finished on. 'You don't need it.

When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around for long and when it bas gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying about when that happiness would be taken away?

I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, never mind in ten years' time. I can only live life with the stuff I know.

Sometimes nothing is the very best thing one can do.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

Our power lies in remaining nonreactive.

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

What's dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.

In every moment we make a decision — whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

The cultivation of mental rest, or surrender, is like eating healthy food. It doesn't give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.

Every cell of my being is radiant with my love for You. May my earthly self align with this, May my human heart stop beating so wildly. May I remember, dear God, that I live in Your mind and I belong in Your arms.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.

Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment, the universe is responding not to your past but to the truth of who you are, always were, and always will be.

I surrender my focus on the past that I might dwell fully in the present. May my mind not wander into the darkness of before, but rather be filled with the light of now. May my heart be open to the knowing that anything is possible in any moment, and God Himself is not held back by the fears or mistakes of yesterday. I forgive what has been, and embrace what is. I am at peace in the holiness of this instant, and release all else.

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self

The future is programmed in the present. To let the past go is to remember that in the present, my brother is innocent.

We heal through noticing, and prayer.

When we choose to love, or to allow our minds to be one with God, then life is peaceful. When we turn away from love, the pain sets in. And whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

What we mentally refuse to permit others, we refuse ourselves. What we bless in others, we draw to us.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. It's the Holy Spirit's job to draw our attention to that, and help us move beyond that point.