Quotes About Mindfulness

It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

Breathe like a fallen leaf and think of nothing. Just breathe and let your heart and mind be carried, however briefly, by the spirit you can't quite see.

Live Humble as a Dog Live humble as a dog and the world will come alive in your mouth.

It's like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

the work of prayer, when we feel least like praying, is neither to inflate or deflate the world or ourselves, but to restore our connection to the powerful currents of life.

So, if you can, give up the want of another and be who you are, and more often than not, love will come at the precise moment you are simply loving yourself.

When we need it most, it is nearly impossible to see ourselves with compassion from the slit of a narrowed mind all tensed for battle.

There's no need to seek the truth-just put a stop to your opinions! -SENG-TS'AN

Since speed and confidence are the traits of success we are taught to strive with, it takes added courage to welcome time and humility into our lives.

COMING OUT While there is much to do we are not here to do.   Under the want to problem-solve is the need to being-solve.   Often, with full being the problem goes away.   The seed being-solves its darkness by blossoming.   The heart being-solves its loneliness by loving whatever it meets.   The tea being-solves the water by becoming tea.

Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.

If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.

Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

Being human, we struggle constantly to stay with the miracle of what is and not to fall constantly into the black hole of what is not. This is an ancient challenge. As the Sufi poet Ghalib said centuries ago, "Every particle of creation sings its own song of what is and what is not. Hearing what is can make you wise; hearing what is not can drive you mad.

How often do we lose sight of what we're really after, insisting on all or nothing, when there is so much abundance wherever we are and so many opportunities that can help us on our way?

We cannot hold on to things and enter. We must put down what we carry, open the door, and then take up only what we need to bring inside.

Just as a life is made of days, so are days made of moments. A life well lived is firmly planted in the sweet soil of moments. Mark Nepo is a gardener in this soil; he plants seeds of grace that grow only in the soil of loving attention and mindful time. We receive the deepest blessings of life when we fall in love with such moments—and Mark shows us how to fall in love deeply and with abandon.

Most sacraments are acts of breathtaking simplicity: a simple prayer, a sip of wine and a piece of bread, a single breath in meditation, a sprinkling of water on the forehead, an exchange of rings, a kind word, a blessing. Any of these, performed in a moment of mindfulness, may open the doors of our spiritual perception and bring nourishment and delight.

We are so achievement-oriented that we often surge right by the true value of relating to what's before us, because we think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

Live slow enough and there is only the beginning of time.

True horsemanship is developed in the mindful quality of everything we do—not just in the quality of everything we do with our horses.

Take life one day at a time, and make each day better than the last.