Quotes About Mindfulness

Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness.

Never speak out of anger, never act out of fear, never choose from impatience, but wait...and peace will appear.

What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.

Le vrai besoin qu'il avait éprouvé tout ce temps-là était de goûter un moment de silence qu'il ne pouvait trouver à l'endroit où son esprit ordinaire le gardait occupé à chercher.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. DON MIGUEL RUIZ, THE FOUR AGREEMENTS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PERSONAL FREEDOM

The shortest mantra is the single Hindi word "Om.")

No hables al menos que puedas mejorar el silencio. (Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.) —Jorge Luis Borges

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough. MEISTER ECKHART

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people. PETE WENTZ

In some way, you help me settle for what is . I come in the door in the evening and I think, I'm going to eat supper with someone who's going to make eating supper an occasion. And that's not a small matter.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.

Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower, or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy.

Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing.

If we can relax when our strong emotions come, then we don't pass fear on to our children and to future generations.

Why wander all over the world looking for something you already have?

The past no longer exists, and the future is not here yet." The only moment in which you can be truly alive is the present moment. The present moment is the destination, the point to arrive at. Every time you breathe in and take a step, you arrive: "Breathing in, I arrive. Breathing out, I arrive." The

My dear friends, my dear disciples, don't take refuge in anything outside of you.

be there is the first step, and recognizing the presence of the other is the second step. To love is to recognize; to be loved is to be recognized by the other.

Right View cannot be described. We can only point in the correct direction. Right View cannot even be transmitted by a teacher. A teacher can help us identify the seed of Right View that is already in our garden, and help us have the confidence to practice, to entrust that seed to the soil of our daily life.

The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.

There is no need to travel a great distance to touch the Kingdom of God, because it is not located in space or time.

Liberation is the ability to go from the world of signs to the world of true nature.