Quotes about Mindfulness

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now.

You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way of thinking.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.

May the God of peace make you whole and holy, may you be kept safe in body, heart, and mind, and thus ready for the presence. God has called you and will not fail you" (1 Thessalonians 5:23).

Know that things are okay as they are. This moment is as perfect as it can be. The saints called this the "sacrament of the present moment.

Once we begin to learn the contemplative mind, we realize it is almost the natural way of seeing—and we have unlearned it! It is quite natural, as we see in children before the age of six or seven when they start judging and analyzing and distinguishing things one from another.

The opposite of contemplation is not action, it is reaction.

When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting, pushing or pulling, you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic. You can take that as axiomatic: in most cases, you become a mirror image of both what you oppose and what you love (see Ephesians 5:14).

If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis

We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness