Quotes about Mindfulness

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

The religiously-minded dualist calls homemade spirits from the vasty deep; the nondualist calls the vasty deep into his spirit or, to be more accurate, he finds that the vasty deep is already there.

No, you accept the world, and you make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.