Quotes about Mindfulness

Spiritual teachers tell us if you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you. If you want to know the state of the collective consciousness, just look around at what is happening in the world. At any given point in time your personal reality is synchronistically, coincidentally orchestrated by your sense of self.

The idol of yourself is the mother of all idols.

Of course he could still conjure up the old faces. But they didn't return on their own anymore. In order to see images of Channa or Suddhodana, he would ask to see them. "Learn to use your memories," he told the younger bikkhus. "Don't let them use you.

By taking explicit notice of breathing patterns, listening with intention to your heartbeat, or reciting a phrase in your mind, infinite possibilities present themselves.

Don't focus on age," she says with a touch of impatience. "It doesn't exist.

Psychologically, stress results whenever anxiety about the future or regrets about the past are invoked.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

The source of all creation is pure consciousness … pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest.

The field of pure potentiality is your own Self.

In everyday situations, getting out of the way begins by giving up on the ego's fantasies.

If we make happiness our primary goal instead of our secondary goal, then we easily accomplish everything else we desire.

They lost the connection to their bodies, to nature, and to themselves.