Top 59 Mindfulness Compassion Quotes
#1. All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or lovingkindness.
Sharon Salzberg
#2. Compassion is born out of lovingkindness.
It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are.
Sharon Salzberg
#3. By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
Sharon Salzberg
#4. 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
#5. Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.
Allan Lokos
#6. We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
Sharon Salzberg
#7. Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
Sharon Salzberg
#9. When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.
Sharon Salzberg
#10. The key to accessing love, joy, peace and compassion is to be free from the dominant state of compulsive thinking. Once we are able to flow into mindfulness and still our thoughts, happiness manifests.
Christopher Dines
#11. As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.
Amit Ray
#12. With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
Sharon Salzberg
#14. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#15. I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
Ron Reagan
#16. Mindfulness and compassion can give you the power, illumination, love, and wisdom to draw higher forms, thoughts, feelings, and situations into your life.
Amit Ray
#17. Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#19. You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.
Sharon Salzberg
#21. The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation.
Amit Ray
#22. The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#24. When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.
Lama Surya Das
#26. Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
Sharon Salzberg
#27. Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
Sharon Salzberg
#28. Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
Sharon Salzberg
#29. We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.
Allan Lokos
#30. Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well.
John Bruna
#31. You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers ...
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#32. Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.
Sharon Salzberg
#33. By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#34. When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of 'being human' and the collective challenges we all face, it makes life much easier to deal with, especially when met with overbearing behaviour.
Christopher Dines
#35. The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.
Allan Lokos
#36. To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)
Donald Rothberg
#37. We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
Sharon Salzberg
#38. Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart
Sharon Salzberg
#39. The Five A's (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion, and the essential qualities of mindfulness practice.
David Richo
#40. If you truly practice mindfulness, it will never cause harm. If the practice doesn't bring about more compassion, then it's not right mindfulness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#41. The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.
Allan Lokos
#42. Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
Sharon Salzberg
#43. First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.
Christopher Dines
#44. To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.
Allan Lokos
#45. Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
Allan Lokos
#46. True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#47. You cannot control the results, only your actions.
Allan Lokos
#48. One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.
Allan Lokos
#49. Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.
Allan Lokos
#50. Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.
Sharon Salzberg
#51. Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.
Amit Ray
#53. Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2).
Christina Feldman
#54. In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.
Sharon Salzberg
#55. Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.
Sharon Salzberg
#56. Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.
Sharon Salzberg
#57. Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result of poor choices a suffering person has made.
Holly Sprink
#58. With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.
Noah Levine
#59. Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.
John Bruna
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