Best 1901 quotes in «mindfulness quotes» category

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

Even if one is not hungry and although eat is called HumanBeing Even though one is hungry and although does not eat is HumanBeing

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.

In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were cluttered up with many thoughts about Buddhism.

I vow to live fully in each moment.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.

Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. All ethics and morality, and a sense of interconnectedness, come out of the act of paying attention.

Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.