Mindfulness Practice Quotes

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air,new lights and new truths to enter.

~ Amit Ray

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.

~ Sharon Salzberg

If Christ attained the state of Absolute Divinity, so can you. And once you do, then only you will understand the true meaning of Religion and God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.

~ Germany Kent

Ten minutes of meditation a day, keeps the psychiatrist away.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.

~ Amit Ray

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.

~ Amit Ray

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

~ Sharon Salzberg

No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It’s how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable.

~ Sharon Salzberg

It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich - beyond material and transient things.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Mindfulness develops the ability to be a real friend to ourselves.

~ Mare Chapman

My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free.

~ Nikki Rowe

Your mind, it will trick you but your heart, it will not.

~ Nikki Rowe

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

~ Amit Ray

We have nothing to fear from others because approval and acceptance lies within ourselves.from Chapter 4

~ Mare Chapman

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.

~ Amit Ray

You are always going to meet disturbances outside yourself, it's the experience of living ~ There will be dark days and there will be days of laughter and somewhere in between you'll create a healthy balance within yourself and call it a life. We can't stop the storm, but we can learn to watch it pass.

~ Nikki Rowe

Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision and inner strength.

~ Amit Ray

Create gaps between stimulus and reaction and the gap will show you the path.

~ Amit Ray

When engaging in simple everyday banter and communications, this rule of thumb can really help suppress a lot of our negative word ‘vomit’ since we often mindlessly chat about the things we don’t like. If we refrain from expressing our negative opinions about things unless they’re directly asked for, we can train ourselves to respond rather than react the second we see or hear something and then feel we must verbalize our views about it.Remember, even if we don’t agree with someone or something, we can still speak about the subject at hand in a positive light to encourage growth rather than guilty motivation. I like to say I express more “inspirations” than “opinions” with each passing day.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

A quiet mind is the quickest and biggest step to a peaceful world.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The stiller you are the calmer life is.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

~ Germany Kent

There is no well being without inner peace.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Mindfulness is awareness of everything that is happening in the moment of 'Now'. Mindfulness is a self development technique that will change the focus of our mind towards happiness.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

Nothing can stop you from being happy except yourself. Focus on positive thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is an enthusiastic assurance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

~ Amit Ray

One has to understand that THINKING and WORRYING are polar opposites, though functioning from same source MIND. While THINKING, is a life-affirmative phenomenon which promotes positivity, hope and motivates the soul to reach higher sphere of life. WORRYING, solely makes one more vulnerable to restlessness & depression driving into life-negative state.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.

~ Amit Ray

Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting stuck into that net.

~ Amit Ray

Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awareness to the present moment.

~ Amit Ray