Mindfulness Quotes

There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully.

~ 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

Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Put down your glass, it is time to dance. If you want to get drunk all you need is to drink love. Put down your pipe and do away with these childish toys. If you want to get high all you need is to breathe love. Now, can I have this dance?

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If we love someone deeply, be they friends, family or lovers, don’t treat the relationship like a playground game of back and forth or tit for tat. See it as a loving connection and let that be the basis of it all.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

People will react to you as a result of their own mindset, rather than as a reflection of your worth. Most people use others as mirrors for their own darkness. If you have been hurt by such people, perhaps you can use these experiences to become a different kind of person—one who reflects the light within others instead of using them as mirrors. Maybe your experiences of pain can lead you to being a great leader, someone who lights up the world. Your most painful struggle is ripe with opportunity.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all.

~ Aberjhani

A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sometimes it's important to dare to dream - small or big - like Mandela, Gandhi, Winfrey, Obama, Malala and Dr King. From Einstein to Hawking - the skies no limit. From Ali to the Williams sisters - through trials and talent find the champions within. Like my mother did to raise great kids. Like the one or many who run with this. Like the unsung heroes in every city and village. Like the kind of heart and selfless healers. Like every act of kindness you ever did and received. Like the human spirit beyond class, colour and creed. Like every soul who has raised our consciousness. From one to all - love IS all we have and need.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Don't respond when the mind snaps its fingers.

~ Bert Mccoy

With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Freedom means either be mindful or do not mind.

~ Aditya Ajmera

True freedom is the ability to respond consciously, in the most beneficial way, to whatever life throws at you.

~ John Bruna

We are evolving beyond the need for instinctual survival. No longer do we need to rely on our instincts of fight or flight, because our stresses today are not life-threatening. We have the recourse to remain at peace and in tune with the Universe. No longer do we need to be blinded by our impulsive human behaviors and reactions. We are coming to a time of transcendence in which we can choose to unplug ourselves from our predictable reactions and create a new future. Right now, our futures are easily calculable by those who understand the formula for humanity. Yet, what is missing from the formula is humanity’s ability to awaken and begin to truly exercise free will.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

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

Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough.

~ Nikki Rowe

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

~ Nikki Rowe

Be bold, speak from your heart.

~ Nikki Rowe

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

~ Evita Ochel

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

~ Amit Ray

I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.

~ Nicole Lyons

Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

We exist only to exist.

~ Kamand Kojouri

No matter what we think we should do, I don’t think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor—or your boss—when you can’t stand him. But if you try to understand your feelings of dislike with mindfulness and compassion, being sure not to forget self-compassion, you create the possibility for change.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns (….)

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends and impatient with your parents, when you were rude to your teachers and didn’t stand up for strangers, that guilt is marvellous. It proves that you are human, that you want to be better. Thank this guilt for teaching you, for making you aware. And now endeavour to better yourself. It is a lifelong work to become the person we want to be.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Some won't stay but thank them for stopping by.

~ Nikki Rowe

Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be.

~ John Bruna

It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means, how it arises and deepens, how it withers and revives, what it looks like as a private good but also a common good. I long to make this word echo differently in hearts and ears—not less complicated, but differently so. Love as muscular, resilient. Love as social—not just about how we are intimately, but how we are together, in public. I want to aspire to a carnal practical love—eros become civic, not sexual and yet passionate, full-bodied. Because it is the best of which we are capable, loving is also supremely exacting, not always but again and again. Love is something we only master in moments.

~ Krista Tippett

An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In this brief interlude of time, I surrender to becoming a cog in the roadway, an insentient time traveler, a ward of eternity, a day-tripper, a nighttime dream weaver, a blip in the cosmos, a freebase glob of energy, an imaginable disk of bundled vitality that wants for nothing.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.

~ Kamand Kojouri

This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes, impressions caught in a flash, flipped through in succession, leaving a richness of images imprinted on a sunburned retina.

~ Ann Zwinger

I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

~ Amit Ray