Quotes About Mindfulness

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

All that is required to realise the Self is to "Be Still.

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think "I am", and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the "I am". Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge. But some of these rules and discipline are good for beginners.

Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind

Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the 'I' first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.

If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.

Let come what comes, Let go what goes, See what remains.

Silence is also conversation.

When one adopts the practice (sadhana) by means of which one'smind, which is restless like the wind, is made still perpetually, then the purpose of taking birth as a human being is fulfilled. That is also the mark of a true scholar. 38. Do not practise meditation by fixing the mind on the six adhara chakras, the ones that are up or down or in the middle, or anywhere else. Giving up all such meditations, make the mind always devoid of any support (either inside or outside).

So long as they make efforts they will not be sages (jnanis).

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself. Do not worry about the future. (p. 154)

First set yourself right, and only then set out to improve others. Change the hearts of men and the world will surely change. But one must begin somewhere; and one can only begin with oneself.

Be as you are. (p. 118)

What the mind has to do is not to suggest a reply, but to remain quiet so that the true reply can arise.

Ramana Maharshi's advice on depression) This depression must be traced to its origin. The origin is the wrong identification of the body with the Self. The disease is not of the Self. It is of the body. But the body does not come and tell you that it is possessed by the disease. It is you who say so. Why? Because you have wrongly identified yourself with the body. The body itself is a thought. Be as you really are. There is no reason to be depressed. (p. 360)

Realization is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought 'I have not realised'.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

After negating all of the above mentioned as 'not this', 'not this', that Awareness which alone remains – that I am.

Not leaving the Self is wisdom.