Quotes About Mindfulness

So if you're rooting around for something to eat, grab an apple while you're looking, and usually by the time you're finished eating it, your hunger will have been sidelined; it's crowding out at its best!

My philosophy is, 'Eat when hungry, stop when you're full.'

If I was hungry for two rotis, I ate only one.

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

We can in fact remove from our hearts the toxic forces of greed, hate, and delusion.

Hatred never ends through hatred. By non-hate alone does it end. This is an ancient truth.

Better than a thousand meaningless statements Is one meaningful word, Which, having been heard, Brings peace.

Buddhist teachings suggest that when we find the thing that keeps us from appreciating the present, the thing that keeps us from trusting, the very thing that causes us suffering, it is a gate to freedom, to awakening.

Greater in combat Than a person who conquers A thousand times a thousand people Is the person who conquers herself.

Doing no evil, Engaging in what's skillful, And purifying one's mind: This is the teaching of the buddhas.

One who delights in the ending of craving Is a disciple of the Fully Awakened One.

The wise Protect vigilance as the greatest treasure.

Vigilant and absorbed in meditation One attains abundant happiness.

Without longing or dislike, No bonds exist.

And I have known meditators filled with doubt and self-condemnation when the practice has been stormy. Practicing with our best effort during periods of crisis and personal struggle may not bring about spiritual highs. It may, however, bring something more important: a strengthening of the inner qualities that sustain a spiritual life for the long term: mindfulness, persistence, courage, compassion, humility, renunciation, discipline, concentration, faith*, acceptance, and kindness.

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

I take a giant breath, roll my anger up into a red rubber ball, and mentally kick it out into space.

I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am.

Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber.

Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.

I realized I was humming "Uncle John's Band" to myself for no good reason.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I

and someone was talking. I wanted to stop thinking