Top 100 Quotes About Mindfulness Meditation
#1. Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#2. early stress increases the size of the amygdalae. One study found that an eight-week program of mindfulness meditation reduced the volume of the right basolateral amygdala, and these changes were correlated with a subjective decrease in stress.
Sam Harris
#3. If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
Daniel Goleman
#4. Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#5. 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
#6. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
Sharon Salzberg
#7. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
Gautama Buddha
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
Sharon Salzberg
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.
Sharon Salzberg
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.
Allan Lokos
#24. 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
#25. Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it's necessary to start with ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#26. Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing - or more complicated - than it is today.
Sharon Salzberg
#27. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
Sharon Salzberg
#28. Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the nature.
Amit Ray
#29. The journey to loving ourselves doesn't mean we like everything.
Sharon Salzberg
#30. Respond; don't react.
Listen; don't talk.
Think; don't assume.
Raji Lukkoor
#31. Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.
Manprit Kaur
#32. Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#33. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Meditation is essential for our survival.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#34. Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.
Nhat Hanh
#35. I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.
Tara Brach
#36. Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.
Waylon H. Lewis
#37. True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter
is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.
Brad Warner
#38. Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.
Sharon Salzberg
#39. 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
#40. The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it.
Narissa Doumani
#41. We have nothing to fear from others because approval and acceptance lies within ourselves.
from Chapter 4
Mare Chapman
#42. With 70,000 thoughts a day and 95% of our activity controlled by the subconscious mind, no wonder that it feels as though we are asleep most of the time. To awake, we need to train Self-Remembering and Mindfulness.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#43. Most of our healing occurs during quiet moments of rest when we are in contact with unconscious feelings and experiences. I can't imagine life without the peaceful, insightful moments I have during meditation.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#44. Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions.
Sharon Salzberg
#46. Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind.
Roshan Sharma
#47. Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
David Richo
#48. Meditation provides the tools not only to abide more comfortably in the present, but also to observe rather than engage with unhappiness-creating thoughts.
David Michie
#49. Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.
Richard Gere
#50. You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.
Frederick Lenz
#51. We must not fall asleep in the present because the now moment is the only reality we truly have.
Kat Lahr
#52. Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.
Frederick Lenz
#53. You can't control the universe, but if you learn to practice meditation and mindfulness you may be able to control yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
Sharon Salzberg
#55. To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
Sharon Salzberg
#56. The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.
Sharon Salzberg
#57. A thought weaves into another thought, seeking the other.
The thought world has its-own Inner Life.
A rose acts upon us through its symbolism, through its beauty, through our conscious & sub-conscious mind.
Meditating we tap into the thought form of 'rose adoration'.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#58. There's no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.
Sharon Salzberg
#59. You cannot control the results, only your actions.
Allan Lokos
#60. The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.
Sharon Salzberg
#61. Rest as the awareness that is aware without using thought.
Loch Kelly
#62. As human beings, we're capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.
Sharon Salzberg
#63. Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.
Matt Haig
#64. In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.
Pema Chodron
#65. Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say "Come back" and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you when you call, just like a friendly pup.
Eknath Easwaran
#66. Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#67. Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart...
Narissa Doumani
#68. If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn't deplete us to give.
Sharon Salzberg
#69. I believe that there is only one kind of love - real love - trying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions of our culture, and the habits of fear, self-condemnation, and isolation that we tend to acquire just by living a life.
Sharon Salzberg
#70. Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.
L.M. Browning
#71. Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating.
Sharon Salzberg
#73. Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.
Sharon Salzberg
#74. If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.
Frederick Lenz
#75. You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.
Sharon Salzberg
#76. Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.
Eknath Easwaran
#77. When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#78. Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.
Sharon Salzberg
#79. with each measured step,
we know
this earth is only as solid
as we are.
Sheniz Janmohamed
#80. The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
Sharon Salzberg
#81. Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them.
Sharon Salzberg
#82. 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
#83. Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
Amit Ray
#84. When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.
Stephen Richards
#85. When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.
Sharon Salzberg
#86. 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
#87. Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way - with awareness, balance, and love
Sharon Salzberg
#88. Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.
Rajneesh
#89. Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what's going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of meditation practice.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#90. We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.
Sharon Salzberg
#91. 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
#92. Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
Sharon Salzberg
#93. The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.
Zhuangzi
#94. All is in the word "know." To know is to realize. Realization is mindfulness. All the work of meditation is aimed at awakening us in order to know one and only one thing: birth and death can never touch us in any way whatsoever.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#95. Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.
Amit Ray
#96. When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.
Sharon Salzberg
#97. We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.
Allan Lokos
#99. Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#100. 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
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