Mindfulness Quotes

Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the mind starts. At some point in the journey it all becomes heart, not mind. ... The mind doesn’t even get achance to start up because you let go atthe heart level.

~ Michael Singer

Everything will be okay as soon as youare okay with everything. And that’s theonly time everything will be okay.

~ Michael Singer

You fill a bucket drop by drop. You clear your mind thought by thought. You heal yourself moment by moment. Today I make one drop, clear one thought, and get present to one moment. And then I do it again.

~ Lisa Wimberger

When we are depleted our giving is empty. Today I take a moment to recharge, fill up with love for my life and all of its character so that I may give from a place of overflowing.

~ Lisa Wimberger

Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high in the Himalayas, in the company of a holy man and his adherents.He never reached the mountain. After the third day he gave up, exhausted, and the pilgrimage went on without him. He said he had the physical strength but that physical strength wasn’t enough. He had the intellectual motivation but that wasn’t enough either. He didn’t think he had been arrogant but thought that he was undertaking the pilgrimage to broaden his experience, to gain understanding for himself. He was trying to use the mountain for his own purposes and the pilgrimage too. He regarded himself as the fixed entity, not the pilgrimage or the mountain, and thus wasn’t ready for it. He speculated that the other pilgrims, the ones who reached the mountain, probably sensed the holiness of the mountain so intensely that each footstep was an act of devotion, an act of submission to this holiness. The holiness of the mountain infused into their own spirits enabled them to endure far more than anything he, with his greater physical strength, could take.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

If we are with someone out of choice, we should act accordingly, and choose to communicate rather than deteriorate.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.

~ Brandi L. Bates

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

~ Brandi L. Bates

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

~ Brandi L. Bates

I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who bring out the inner diamonds. I want to be around those intellectual giants who extract the gold within me, those who force me to read, to attend classes, seminars, conferences, and who steep me in an environment of perpetual growth and upward mobility. Not trying to be funny, but I've learned that I simply cannot afford to invest too much time around mediocrity. It's contagious.

~ Brandi L. Bates

The more we practice mindfulness the more we understand the emotional dynamics of the self and others. Mindful emotions can create a positive climate leading to better outcomes.

~ Amit Ray

Replace fear of your own inner experience with a curious, gentle, welcoming attitude—free of judgment, self-blame, and aversion.

~ Melanie Greenberg

Our body hears whatever is in our minds and responds.

~ Akiroq Brost

In the end we will realise that we only came to earth to love

~ Mimi Novic

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

~ Amit Ray

Don't get caught in the trap of always Needing something. Needing something always projects your mind into the future as if you have it and is the opposite of gratitude. Be content in the present moment.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Even just taking 20 seconds to truly appreciate your surroundings makes a world of difference.

~ Russell Eric Dobda

Like gratitude, authentic appreciation in the workplace is a realisation that can be nurtured and accessed with daily mindful practice. By and large, people who are grateful, happy and enthusiastic are going to demonstrate better performance than those who are unhappy and unappreciative. There is increasing evidence that a grateful mindset amplifies happiness and mental and emotional wellbeing.

~ Christopher Dines

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

~ Anna Quindlen

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)

~ Victoria Moran

Irrespective of what religious or intellectual philosophy guides an enlightened person’s life plan, self-mastery plays an important, if not quintessential role.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you're in and live your life to the fullest.

~ Nanette Mathews

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower.

~ Amit Ray

Success is all about falling in love with one idea!

~ Kabira

Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.

~ Chris Matakas

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

When the weeks have built up with frustration and immense stress and one of your co-workers, a manager or an employee triggers irritation or angers you, knowing how to respond in a mindful way can pay huge dividends. Knowing how to not take other people’s emotional baggage personally and intuitively sensing when to bring up concerns and when not to is an expression of emotional intelligence. This is all possible if we are being truly mindful.

~ Christopher Dines

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

~ Kaiden Blake

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...

~ Pema Chödrön

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

~ Marilynne Robinson

We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time. When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy. It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable.

~ Mark Nepo

Let go of your mind and then be mindful.Close your ears and listen!

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

~ Louis L'amour

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

~ Pema Chödrön