Browsing Topic Best Mindfulness Quotes

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn’t to save it, but to savour it.

None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it’s fleeting.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it’s great.

See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there’s no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

When you do something half-heartedly, you don’t get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

If President Bush does a lousy job, then he’ll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who’s selling burgers does a great job, then he’ll be much more powerful than President Bush.

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore – that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

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.

When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.

We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from thought and become aware that there are things beyond thought.

You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.

You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn’t produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It’s not just the absence of thought.

Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you’re doing. It doesn’t matter much what you’re doing. What matters is how you do it.

Awakening is natural,delusion is not

In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

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.

The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence… Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff’s hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.

It’s but little good you’ll do a-watering the last year’s crops

To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.

After all the years of [spiritual] work, … I’ve realized this: that everything and everyone is precious beyond words. Everything and everyone is holy. And the point of our being on this sweet planet is to be of service to all of it. And when we understand this truth in our bones, joy fills our hearts.

Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else’s thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else’s desires.