Mindfulness Quotes

Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

~ Marilynne Robinson

Be mindful of those who take credit for your success or blame you for their failures.

~ Russell Eric Dobda

Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.

~ Mary Rose O'reilley

My biggest question was how to get rid of desire while going after your dreams? Dreams are desire in some way, shape or form. My answer is go after your dreams but don't get lost in your actions by staying present as often as possible.

~ Matthew Donnelly

There are high places that don’t invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take…I’m giddy with thinking where thinking can’t stick.No Names

~ Kay Ryan

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

~ Brandi L. Bates

When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise.

~ Brandi L. Bates

When you look back at the painful and difficult events of your life, you find that they were the times of your greatest personal growth. The challenges of our lives provide us the opportunity to develop our highest potentials.

~ John Bruna

Mindfulness is essential in our path toward personal growth. We cannot cannot change what we are not aware of.

~ Jose Incer

The result of mindful awareness is the development of our virtues, which are the basic positive building blocks of our life.

~ Janet Gallagher Nestor

Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time.

~ Janet Gallagher Nestor

What is the date? What is the time? … Great, that’s what Now is. And every second, your ‘Now’ changes. Because all we have is Now. We are continuously living in the Now. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but Now. Today. The present. And I need you to live in it. To truly appreciate it. To breathe and feel yourself breathing.

~ S.r. Crawford

Time passes no matter what you do.

~ S.r. Crawford

May you always remember the Beloved is your divine and sacred self.

~ Earthschool Harmony

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be interpreted.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

~ Diane Keaton

Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Healing is achieved through turning on the light of your soul and allowing it to shine.

~ Janet Gallagher Nestor

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Give yourself permission to enjoy this present moment. Resist the urge to fill it with I need to's, I shoulds, I coulds. Trying to fill all your present moments is impeding the natural flow of life.

~ Nanette Mathews

What you resist, persists....Let go and your life will flow.

~ Nanette Mathews

When we're consciously aware, we receive the messages the universe sends to answer us through intuition that could be easily missed if we weren't living in the moment. These messages will guide us to our true path.

~ Nanette Mathews

Take your life out of high gear and disengage the autopilot mode. Try living mindfully and avoid the pattern of living in a reactive manner.

~ Nanette Mathews

Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.

~ Abhijit Naskar

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, I am a mechanic. At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Conscious Parenting on Children's Happiness and matrix of influences: 'We live surrounded by an increasingly complex matrix of impulses allowing strangers of all sorts (TV, media, Internet) interfere in our children’s mental, emotional and spiritual development. Understanding this intricate network and how does the human brain interacts with it is increasingly becoming our door to happiness and health.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

~ Aberjhani

What goes on in our heads solely determines the level at which we function in society, our physical health, and the degree of our mental and emotional stability and maturity.

~ Renee Cefalu

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static, it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi.

~ Harshit Walia

You are not your thoughts, you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions, you feelemotions. You are not your body, you look at it in the mirror and experience this world through its eyes and ears. You are the conscious being who is aware that you are aware of all these inner and outer things.

~ Michael Singer

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

~ Anthony Liccione

[Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.

~ Larry Dossey

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding.

~ Kat Lahr

If we do not judge flow of life by the limited human understanding, we will flow through life calmly and effortlessly.

~ Aditya Ajmera