Quotes about Mindfulness

Often we either don't plan at all, or we get caught up in obsessive planning because we fear the future and its uncertainty.

Often our thinking goes around and around in circles, so we lose all our joy in living.

If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive.

Relax. It's only a game.

it is always possible to practice "I have arrived, I am home." I have run all my life; I am not going to run anymore; now I am determined to stop and really live my life.

With mindful walking, our steps are no longer a means to arrive at an end.

In everyone there's a continuous desire and expectation; deep inside, you still expect something better to happen. That is why you check your email many times a day!

The way to suffer well and be happy is to stay in touch with what is actually going on; in doing so, you will gain liberating insights into the true nature of suffering and of joy.

You think the other person in your life is going to be there forever, but that is not true. That person is impermanent, just like you. So if you can do something to make that person happy, you should do it right away. Anything you can do or say to make him or her happy—say it or do it now. It's now or never.

As a practitioner, you can create holiness. Holiness cannot be bestowed on us by someone else. ... We are a saint when we can produce holiness.

A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.

Make the practice pleasant, that is what I beg you to do.