Mindfulness Zen Quotes

#1. 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.

#2. All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

George Will

#3. It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.

Alaric Hutchinson

#4. There is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Peace, and there is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Love.

Alaric Hutchinson

#5. Ruth whacked the seat beside her on the sofa, in what could only be interpreted as an invitation. It was like receiving a personalized Molotov cocktail. Gamache

Louise Penny

#6. To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it.

Alan W. Watts

#7. Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Compassion dissolves ignorance.

Alaric Hutchinson

#11. It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.

Nikki Rowe

#12. The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet - to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind - with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.

Nhat Hanh

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

Lidiya K.

#14. Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#15. I can't solve the crime unless I know everything and the world can't end with the crime unsolved, that's all there is to it, so I tighten my grip on her shoulders and demand that she remember.

Ben H. Winters

#16. With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

Alaric Hutchinson

#17. Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Carol Berg

#18. The idea of "working well" was a relative one for us and that in the context of our present lives my mother was right, it was absolutely fine, no problem.

Miriam Toews

#19. I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

T. Boone Pickens

#20. We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation.

Alaric Hutchinson

#21. When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

Zen Proverb

#22. I am so close, I may look distant.
So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.
So out in the open, I appear hidden.
So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

Rumi

#23. Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#24. 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.

#25. Keep your opinion to yourself unless it's asked for.

Alaric Hutchinson

#26. Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.

Padgett Powell

#27. In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.

Frederick Lenz

#28. The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#29. We do so much, we run so quickly, the situation is difficult, and many people say, "Don't just sit there, do something." But doing more things may make the situation worse. So you should say, "Don't just do something, sit there." Sit there, stop, be yourself first, and begin from there.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#30. Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#31. If you have mindfulness, if you feel safe, you recognize that you have plenty of conditions to be happy already, and that you don't need to run into the future in order to get a few more conditions.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#32. We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.

Thich Nhat Hanh