Mindfulness Moment Quotes

#1. Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.

Richard Davidson

#2. Mindfulness is the continuous practice of touching deeply every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly present with your body and your mind, to bring harmony to your intentions and actions, and to be in harmony with those around you.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means.

Lidiya K.

#6. Mindfulness is the awareness of what is going on in us and around us in the present moment. It requires stopping, looking deeply, and recognizing both the uniqueness of the moment and its connection to everything that has gone on before and will go on in the future.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. 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

#8. If you are mindful, you can eat the bread and the bread represents the whole cosmos ... You set the table, you lay the food in the presence of God. Mindfulness is the awareness that shines on every act in every moment.

Gustav Niebuhr

#9. Mindfulness can be summed up in seven words:
Deliberate Focused Attention In The Present Moment.
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Denis John George

#10. This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

Marion Ross

#11. If you're living in the present...you only have to deal with what's actually going on in that moment.

Sheri Van Dijk

#12. Mindfulness is like that - it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#13. 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

#14. Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

Deepak Chopra

#15. Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment

Thich Nhat Hanh

#16. In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and - if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom - disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.

Matthieu Ricard

#17. Everything real is in the present moment. Only here can we find happiness and harmony, feel alive and do something that will change our future. Only here can we be with the people we love, enjoy the things we like and see beautiful places.

Lidiya K.

#18. The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.

Barry Schwartz

#19. Life is not about what happened yesterday nor what will happen tomorrow,it's about this particular moment!

Runa Magnus

#20. Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on - information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.

Mark Williams

#21. Breathe out unwanted thoughts with your exhale and re-focus your attention directly on what is important right now, at this moment.

Amit Ray

#22. 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

#23. What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

Roger N. Walsh

#24. Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#25. The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#26. If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Daniel Goleman

#27. Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#28. The present moment is that one point where everything comes together.

Robert Anthony

#29. The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.

Shinzen Young

#30. Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Catherynne M Valente

#31. Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

Aldous Huxley

#32. It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#33. Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

Deepak Chopra

#34. Mindfulness helps you understand that the past is gone, can't be changed and all the lessons are already learned.

Lidiya K.

#35. A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.

Sheri S. Tepper

#36. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Nhat Hanh

#37. Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

Eckhart Tolle

#38. Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

Tom Vanderbilt

#39. It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

Peter Shepherd

#40. The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#41. Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.

Mahasi Sayadaw

#42. You should enjoy the present moment because this is all you have. Create for tomorrow, but live in and for today.

Robert Anthony

#43. The skill of mindfulness allows you to remain grounded in the present moment even when you face difficult stressors, so that your stressful feelings feel more manageable..

Melanie Greenberg

#44. There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

Leo Buscaglia

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#48. The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment.

Debasish Mridha

#49. Mindfulness is to understand that there is a no moment left to be unhappy.

Amit Ray

#50. Mindfulness encourages us to exist in the present moment.

Anne Williams

#51. We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here ... Mindfulness meditation is just a trick for doing that. It's a trick for setting aside your to-do list, if only for a few moments, and actually locate a feeling of fulfilment in the present

Sam Harris

#52. Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

Chogyam Trungpa

#53. You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#54. Through it all, we attempt to bring balance to the present moment,
understanding that in patience lies wisdom,
knowing that what will come next will be determined in large measure by how we are now.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#55. Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.

Nancy L. Kriseman

#56. As a mindfulness student once said to his teacher, "Every time I start to think about how I'm finally in the here and now, I realize the moment has already passed." The

Donald Altman

#57. He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world's excuses.

Walter Mosley

#58. Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Mother Teresa

#59. See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

Frederick Lenz

#60. The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it.

Narissa Doumani

#61. Impermanence means that everything changes and that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moments. And although things change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#62. Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present.

Matthew Donnelly

#63. Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.

Joseph Campbell

#64. It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

Victoria Moran

#65. As you will see, mindfulness practice does not need to be another "add-on." Its beauty lies in the fact that it can be fully and easily integrated into every act of our daily living, reminding us to live the present moment fully.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#66. There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.

Janice Marturano

#67. Life is a pilgrimage. Each moment is to be lived in depth, because each moment contains God, hidden within it.

Banani Ray

#68. Everything can turn around in a moment, if you just change your thoughts, and make different decisions. Listen to your heart.

Stacie Hammond

#69. Things sometimes go our way and sometimes they don't. All we can do is apply ourselves to our profession, giving our very best effort but emotionally letting go of the outcome. Why? Because if we obsess about an outcome, we cannot possibly honour the present moment.

Christopher Dines

#70. [R]emain open to not knowing, perhaps allowing yourself to come to the point of admitting, "I don't know," and then experimenting with relaxing a bit into this not knowing instead of condemning yourself for it. After all, in this moment, it may be an accurate statement of how things are for you.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#71. You don't have to wait until you get to the top of a mountain, to enjoy the view.

Eleanor Brownn

#72. Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front of us, we set aside our mental and emotional baggage. To be mindful we have to re-train our mind.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#73. The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full of energy, utterly self-generated.

Sang H. Kim

#74. A mindful parent is one who is committed to practicing being present and awake, and to listening deeply to her child, moment by moment. Mindfulness depends upon awareness.

Shauna L. Shapiro

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

Charlotte Eriksson

#76. Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#77. In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

Deepak Chopra

#78. Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#79. That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I am lost in thought, however, I'm as confused as anyone else.

Sam Harris

#80. The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#81. Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.

Sylvia Boorstein

#82. I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

Ram Dass

#83. Yoga reveals to you the beauty of mindfulness and takes you into the essence of an endless present moment.

Debasish Mridha

#84. It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.

Narissa Doumani

#85. 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

#86. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Thich Nhat Hanh

#87. In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover it.

Amit Ray

#88. In any moment of time, you have three paths to choose from. You stand for something, you stand against something, or you drop both, and walk with your inner truth.

Roshan Sharma

#89. Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

Amit Ray

#90. Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

Amit Ray

#91. Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#92. Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.

Amit Ray

#93. Even if you can't be totally mindful at every meal, if you can say a blessing, silently if necessary, or offer up a prayer for someone, something beyond yourself and your food, the prayer helps to transform eating into something that affects not only our hunger at that moment but the greater world.

Mary DeTurris Poust

#94. Living in the present moment or commonly know as Mindfulness is being aware and conscious of your surroundings. From awareness, we evolve into the moment rather than regretting the past or fearing the future. It leads to full consciousness, even intuition.

Suresh Devnani

#95. We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#96. In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

Victoria Moran

#97. We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.

Cristen Rodgers

#98. Mindfulness of the body is awareness of ... the taste and smell of this moment.

Steve Hagen

#99. We must not fall asleep in the present because the now moment is the only reality we truly have.

Kat Lahr

#100. Mindfulness is living in the moment without judging it.

Debasish Mridha