Meditation Mindfulness Quotes

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

find your eternity in each moment

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.