Quotes about Mindfulness

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Confine yourself to the present.

You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I just tried to find a fine line between muscling in and staying relaxed.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

In your days - things like this happen to you... You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake, and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired - but I don't want you to miss this."

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.