Quotes about Mindfulness

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

Don't worry if those around you aren't doing their best. Just worry about how to make yourself worthy. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.

Of course, you have the right to suffer, but as a practitioner, you do not have the right not to practice. We all need to be understood and loved, but the practice is not merely to expect understanding and love. It is to practice understanding and love. Please don't complain when no one seems to love or understand you. Make the effort to understand and love them better.

People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle.

The person who has nothing to do doesn't need to put on airs or leave any trace behind.

We have to learn to be kinder to ourselves.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Our motivation and our thoughts about our actions become as important as the actions themselves.

One way to re-collect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not to let it wander too far in other times: you should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.

That useless thoughts spoil all: that the mischief began there; but that we ought to reject them, as soon as we perceived their impertinence to the matter in hand, or our salvation; and return to our communion with GOD.