Mindfulness Quotes

We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.

~ Sharon Salzberg

A relationship is the union of two psychological systems.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it’s necessary to start with ourselves.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Letting go of the belief that we’re powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our ability not only to heal but also to genuinely love and receive the love of others.

~ 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

To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don’t sense it.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one’s friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it’s also more grounded & sustainable.

~ Sharon Salzberg

From our first breath to our last, we’re presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it.

~ Lalah Delia

I honor you for every timethis year you:got back upvibrated highershined your lightand loved and elevatedbeyond—the call of duty.

~ Lalah Delia

Healing—takes time,and—so does—not healing.Chose—how you spend your time —wisely.

~ Lalah Delia

Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.

~ Germany Kent

‪You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

My Sikh sisters and brothers proclaim with utter glory and faith “Jo Bole So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal”, I say ”Jo Anubhava So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal”. My translation of the former is “He who utters ‘Great Eternal Truth’ becomes joyous”, while the latter translates to “He who experiences ‘Great Eternal Truth’ becomes joyous”.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

He (Mohammed) was an ordinary man just like any other man. And as such his personal instincts, urges, drives as well as his philosophical goodness bubbled to the surface of his consciousness when he attained the Absolute Unitary Qualia.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A new mind, equals a new life.

~ Lalah Delia

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

~ Amit Ray

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't. A person's actions will tell you everything you need to know. Love yourself enough to say goodbye to those who don't make time for you or don't know how to love you back. Let go of what hurts, even if it hurts to let go. ~ Jennifer Green

~ Jennifer Green

It's a process.

~ Mommy Moo Moo

The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord with the entire world can a person distill happiness that flows from cultivating a state of mindfulness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Imagine yourself having a fight with your romantic partner. The tension of the situation makes your limbic system run at full throttle and you become flooded with stress hormones like cortisol and adrenalin. The high levels of these chemicals suddenly make you so damn angry, that you burst out in front of your partner saying, “I wish you die, so that I can have some peace in my life”. Given the stress of the situation through highly active limbic system, your PFC loses its freedom to take the right decision and you burst out with foul language in front of your partner, that may ruin your relationship. In simple terms due to your mental instability, you lost your free will to make the right decision.But when the conversation is over, and you relax for a while, your stress hormone levels come down to normal, and you regain your usual cheerful state of mind. Immediately, your PFC starts analyzing the explosive conversation you had with your partner. Healthy activity of the entire frontal lobes, especially the PFC suddenly overwhelms you with a feeling of guilt. Your brain makes you realize, that you have done something devilish. As a result, now you find yourself making the willful decision of apologizing to your partner and making up to him or her, no matter how much effort it takes, because your PFC comes up the solution that it is the healthiest thing to do for your personal life.From this you can see, that what you call free will is something that is not consistent. It changes based on your mental health. Mental instability or illness, truly cripples your free will. And the healthier your frontal lobes are, the better you can take good decisions. And the most effective way to keep your frontal lobes healthy is to practice some kind of meditation.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

~ Abhijit Naskar

The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over time - and to sustain you through it - your motivation must become an inner energy; a 'motor' driving you forward, passionately, purposefully, wisely and compassionately... come what may, every day. Inspiration is an outer - worldly - energy that you breathe and draw in. It may come from many places, faces, spaces and stages - right across the ages. It is where nature, spirit, science, mind and time meet, dance, play and speak. It keeps you outward facing and life embracing. But you must be open-minded and open-hearted to first let it in and then let it out again. Together - blended, combined and re-entwined - motivation and inspiration bring connectivity, productivity, creativity and boundless possibilities that is not just 'self' serving but enriching to all humanity and societies...just as it should be.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

~ Victoria Moran

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

~ Deepak Chopra

I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought or thoughtfulness.

~ Rebecca Solnit