Top 100 Quotes About Mindfulness
#1. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
Sharon Salzberg
#2. 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
#3. Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#4. 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
#5. Each place is the right place
the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)
Ravi Ravindra
#7. I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.
Charlotte Eriksson
#8. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
Sharon Salzberg
#9. For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It's one of those things where, if you're not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there's a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.
Jon Favreau
#11. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.
Sharon Salzberg
#12. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.
Evita Ochel
#13. Acceptance in the mindful context means that even when the unthinkable happens, we honor our self and our experience with dignity and kindness. Rather than turn our back on our own suffering, we treat ourselves as we would a beloved friend.
Heather Stang
#14. Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
Gautama Buddha
#15. The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God, is to lose a sense of the very thing that distinguishes God as God.
A.J. Conyers
#16. What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
Byron Katie
#17. Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.
Evita Ochel
#18. 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
#19. Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.
Frederick Lenz
#20. Mindfulness isn't something we practice only in the meditation hall; we also practice in the kitchen, in the garden, or when we're on the telephone, driving the car, or washing the dishes.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#21. 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
#22. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#23. They say practice mindfulness, practice meditation, practice kindness, practice breathing. I found no answers and wanted to practice driving a tank through a department store.
Jon Konrath
#24. We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#25. When you prepare a meal with artful awareness, it's delicious and healthy. You have put your mindfulness, love, and care into the meal, then people will be eating your love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#26. In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
#27. Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#28. With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty
it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman
Huston Smith
#29. 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
#31. You don't have to wait until you get to the top of a mountain, to enjoy the view.
Eleanor Brownn
#32. 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
#33. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.
Kaiden Blake
#35. 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
#36. Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.
Sharon Salzberg
#37. Judging has become such a part of our thinking patterns that we are rarely even aware of why and how we do it. It takes a great deal of conscious thinking or mindfulness to even bring the habit of judging into our awareness.
Brene Brown
#38. It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding.
Kat Lahr
#39. Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#40. 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 a
chance to start up because you let go at
the heart level.
Michael Singer
#41. Healing is achieved through turning on the light of your soul and allowing it to shine.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#42. Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.
Sharon Salzberg
#43. Mindfulness does not erase negative memories; it 'transcends' them giving us back our deepest power which resides in our hearts.
Christopher Dines
#44. [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
#45. Wellness within is mindfulness and acceptance of what you are, what you feel inside and how it's always changing. That process is helped by being attentive to the breath as it moves through the body.
Rodney Yee
#47. Destiny is manifested only through action.
Suzy Kassem
#48. I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.
Nikki Rowe
#49. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
Sharon Salzberg
#50. Making your mind your best friend is the most intellectual choice that any man can make
Mohit Dhaka
#52. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain
Evan Sutter
#53. Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.
Nhat Hanh
#54. There is no mystery. Truth is here - always present. Mystery is in the mind and mind is a myth.
Rashmit Kalra
#55. Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world
Kelly Martin
#56. Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.
Justin Vernon
#57. A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.
Kenny Werner
#58. 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
#59. You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.
Nhat Hanh
#60. Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
Krista Tippett
#61. When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.
Sharon Salzberg
#62. The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.
Allan Lokos
#63. When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#64. Your spiritual heart imbibes in the primordial light and, as you dance towards infinity, you begin to see all things are held together by the power of love.
Earthschool Harmony
#65. It's the effort of trying to change things from what they are that ultimately exhausts us. Mindfulness
Ruby Wax
#66. Mindfulness practice begins to open up everything. We open our mind to memories, to emotions, to different sensations in the body. In meditation this happens in a very organic way, because we are not searching, we are not pulling or probing, we are just sitting and watching.
Joseph Goldstein
#67. Stay present for the "now" of your life. It's your "point of power.
Doug Dillon
#68. What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.
S. Kelley Harrell
#69. If we allow our American mindset of consumption to spill into our understanding of what a Christian is, we are in danger of living irrespective of world family.
Holly Sprink
#70. The true self is that which is in touch with reality.
The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.
Stefan Molyneux
#71. How we prepare our food, how we consume our food really makes a difference in how our food satisfies us and shapes the role we give food in our lives. Is it something we stuff in to satisfy an urge or something we savor to feed us physically and sustain us spiritually?
Mary DeTurris Poust
#72. Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.
Sylvia Boorstein
#73. By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.
Eknath Easwaran
#74. 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
#75. Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.
Sharon Salzberg
#76. Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.
Sylvia Boorstein
#77. Enough.
These few words are enough
If not these few words, this breath
If not this breath, this sitting here
This opening to the life we have refused again and again
Until now
Until now.
David Whyte
#78. Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.
Allan Lokos
#79. Blessed are the misfits who make their own rules and stick to them for they shall inherit peace of mind
Chikamso C. Efobi
#80. True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.
Robert Thurman
#81. Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.
T.F. Hodge
#82. Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God.
Miguel Ruiz
#83. By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.
Annika Sorensen
#84. To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.
Don G. Campbell
#85. Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.
Nhat Hanh
#86. Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
Ellen Langer
#88. We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
Sharon Salzberg
#89. Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.
Dan Harris
#90. Everything can turn around in a moment, if you just change your thoughts, and make different decisions. Listen to your heart.
Stacie Hammond
#91. In a growing economy where our attention is being farmed for commercial gain, mindfulness is one of the few tools available for returning our sense of agency and control.
Rohan Gunatillake
#92. I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psyche goes with the river- always loping downhill, purposeful, listening only to gravity.
Ann Zwinger
#93. The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.
Debra Moffitt
#94. Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.
Amit Ray
#95. Life is a pilgrimage. Each moment is to be lived in depth, because each moment contains God, hidden within it.
Banani Ray
#96. All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
Sharon Salzberg
#97. This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Gautama Buddha
#98. Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.
Dustin Moskovitz
#99. One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.
Allan Lokos
#100. Through practising body scan awareness meditation, we can greatly reduce the detrimental effects of stress and make our working lives pleasant and enjoyable.
Christopher Dines
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