Quotes about Mindfulness

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby wee come to search out the truth, and settle it effectually upon the heart.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

if a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity