Mindfulness Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Mindfulness.
Top Quotes
“Consciousness”
“Self-awareness”
“Self-actualization”
“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”
“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
“Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.”
“念”
“The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.”
“Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. p.83”
“It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe.”
“Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.”
“Wikipedia: Mindfulness”
“Mindfulness is present-moment awareness. It takes place in the here and now. It is the observance of what is happening right now, in the present. It stays forever in the present, perpetually on the crest of the ongoing wave of passing time.”
“Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a “mystical” state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.”
“If a word doesn't work for you anymore, then drop it and replace it with one that does work. If you don't like the word sin, then call it unconsciousness or insanity. That may get you closer to the truth, the reality behind the word, than a long-misused word like sin, and leaves little room for guilt.”
“Open your eyes and see the fear, the despair, the greed, and the violence that are all-pervasive. See the heinous cruelty and suffering on an unimaginable scale that humans have inflicted and continue to inflict on each other as well as on other life forms on the planet. You don't need to condemn. Just observe. That is sin. That is insanity.”
“There is, monks, this one way to the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and distress, for the disappearance of pain and sadness, for the gaining of the right path, for the realization of Nibbāna :—that is to say, the four foundations of mindfulness.”
“Awakening as a future event has no meaning because awakening is the realization of Presence. So the new heaven, the awakened consciousness, is not a future state to be achieved. A new heaven and a new earth are arising within you at this moment, and if they are not arising at this moment, they are no more than a thought in your head and therefore not arising at all.”