Quotes about Mindfulness

Always be. Never try to become. You can be anything you want, just don't work at becoming. Remember to be it.

Make each day your masterpiece.

Make each day a masterpiece.

John Wooden focused almost entirely on improvement in the present moment. He let the score—winning—take care of itself. Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

If you prepare properly, you may be outscored but you will never lose.

Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

How much more pleasant this world would be if we magnified our blessings the way we magnify our disappointments.

Guess what? When it comes right down to it, wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, how are you going to handle it? In other words, "Now what?

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

To allow ourselves to be truly in touch with where we already are, no matter where that is, we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in its fullness, to hold it in awareness and thereby come to know and understand it better.

By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop by repetitively lifting weights.