Mindfulness Quotes

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

~ Sharon Salzberg

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers...

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.

~ Michael Levy

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

~ Nyanaponika Thera

Mindfulness isn't about ridding yourself of thoughts. It's more about being aware and letting those thoughts pass through you, so you can see what if any value they have for you. Thoughts are an illusion but some of them are enlightening.

~ Nanette Mathews

You don’t create your thoughts, but you choose your thoughts. To pick the right thoughts at a right time is what wisdom is all about.

~ Roshan Sharma

When we don't automatically take them (thoughts) personally or believe the stories about reality that we build from them,when we can simply hold them in awareness with a sense of curiosity and wonder at their amazing power given their insubstantiality, their limitations,and inaccuracies,then we have a chance right in that moment,in any moment really,to not get caught in their habitual patterning,to see thoughts for what they are,impersonal events.Then in that moment at least, we are already free,ready to act with greater clarity and kindness within the constantly changing field of events that is nothing other than life unfolding-- not always as we think it should,but definitely as it is.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

All of our thoughts – ideas – are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression upon the mind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Your thoughts are based on your perceptions and those thoughts are capable to refine your perceptions again.

~ Bikash Bhandari

Be aware of the voices in your head. Identify them. Just because you hear it doesn’t mean it’s your voice saying it. And just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true.

~ Toni Sorenson

Unexamined thoughts, habits or action may offer some deceptive gain or pleasure but eventually it takes away something most valuable from our life ,which we have ever wished for.

~ Aditya Ajmera

You have the ability to control your thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don’t believe everything you think.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

If you are not in control of your thoughts then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power, regardless of whatever else you accomplish. If you are not aware of the thoughts that you are thinking in each moment, then you are the rider with no reins, with no power over where you are going. You cannot control what you are not aware of. Awareness must come first.

~ Thomas M. Sterner

Whats on my mind? I think the question is, where is my mind?

~ Laura Hanna

It's easy to get lost in our own heads. It's easy to allow the thoughts and worries and plans and hopes to take on their own lives and control our minds in such a way that we lose sight of all that's around us in any given moment. It's difficult to allow those thoughts and problems to take a back seat in our lives in order to be completely aware of what's right here, right now. Perhaps there's a person who really could use you to take a couple of moments to pay attention to him or her; perhaps there's a cool autumn breeze that's going to calm your spirit with its amazing touch--but only if you actually notice it.

~ Tom Walsh

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Unfortunately, nothing can protect you from the thoughts in your own head.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Sometimes we don't need to eat or drink as much as we do, but it has become a kind of addiction. We feel so lonely. Loneliness is one of the afflictions of modern life. It is similar to the Third and Fourth Precpets--we feel lonely, so we engage in conversation, or even in a sexual relationship, hoping that the feeling of loneliness will go away. Drinking and eating can also be the result of loneliness. You want to drink or overeat in order to forget your loneliness, but what you eat may bring toxins into your body. When you are lonely, you open the refrigerator, watch TV, read magazines or novels, or pick up the telephone to talk. But unmindful consumption always makes things worse (68).

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.

~ Debra Moffitt

We all have limitations. They are worth befriending. They teach us a lot. They can show us what we most need to pay attention to and honor. They become our cutting edge for learning and growing and gentling ourselves into the present moment as it is.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Keep dreaming.You can go as far as you dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dwell positive thoughts!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am the master of my mind. I dwell on positive thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.

~ Shya Kane

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Conversion of our views of self in light of God is continual. We daily have to take the time to notice and trust in who he is in order to understand who we are. The book of Romans assures us that God's Spirit will fill each moment of our lives if we notice and trust the way he is repairing our humanity.

~ Holly Sprink

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

~ Gyalwa Dokhampa

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

~ David Foster Wallace

I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life…. And that was my own fault.

~ Gary Hopkins

He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead, glittering. And the projected future fear. ... It's too much to think about. To Abide there. But none of it's as of now real. ... He could just hunker down in the space between each heartbeat and make each heartbeat a wall and live in there. Not let his head look over. What's unendurable is what his own head could make of it all. ... But he could choose not to listen.

~ David Foster Wallace

Mindfulness means being present to whatever is happening here and now - when mindfulness is strong, there is no room left in the mind for wanting something else. With less liking and disliking of what arises, there is less pushing and pulling on the world, less defining of the threshold between self and other, resulting in a reduced construction of self. As the influence of self diminishes, suffering diminishes in proportion.

~ Andrew Olendzki

The goal of becoming a better person is within the reach of us all, at every moment. ... We need only invoke the power of mindful awareness in any action of body, speech, or mind to elevate that action from the unconscious reflex of a trained creature to the awakened choice of a human being who is guided to a higher life by wisdom. ... We may not complete the work in this lifetime and root out the very mechanism by which our minds and bodies manifest their hereditary karmic toxins. Yet to whatever extent we can notice them as they arise, understand them for what they are, and gently abandon our grasp of them - if only for this moment - we are gaining ground in the grand scheme of things. And even a modest moment of emancipation from the unwholesome roots of greed, hatred, and delusion is a moment without suffering.

~ Andrew Olendzki

The mess we are making of our planet is caused by our own greed, hatred, and delusion. Aside from the existential afflictions of aging, death, and at least some of the illnesses, every instance we see of human misery, injustice, affliction. or sufficient and pain will, upon sufficient and sometimes even cursory investigation, be shown to be rooted in the attachment, aversion, or ignorance of some person or some group of people together.

~ Andrew Olendzki

The problem with trying to find your happiness through avoidance is the nature of reality. Reality simply does not allow us to evade unwanted experiences. Sure, we might be able to escape a few {...] but the evasive life often comes at a cost, like having to live your life in terror. Even if we can successfully ward off some terrifying experiences, we can not advert them all. Particularly, the most unpleasant ones: sickness, old age and death. If our strategy has been to flea unpleasant circumstances, when they come to meet us - as they surely will - our suffering will be great indeed.

~ Mark W. Muesse

Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain

~ Evan Sutter