Mindfulness Quotes

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is.

Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the now, to celebrate life by being completely present. You just watch the tail ... with some dogs you just look at them - just a little look is enough - and their tail goes ...'Life is good! Life is good!' And they are not telling themselves a story of why life is good. It's a direct realization.

Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Everyone is overridden by thoughts;that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combatingnegative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

The world may be known Without leaving the house.

Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.

One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

Look, really look, at how beautiful this day is. Let go of the worries and anxieties and judgments, and see the beauty.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.

Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.