Quotes about Mindfulness

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.

Maybe the only enemy is that we don't like the way reality is *now* and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

We can regard ourselves as already awake; we can regard our world as already sacred.

Son, as long as you live, Satan will use what you see and what you hear against you.

Praying anywhere can easily become praying nowhere, just as praying anytime can easily become praying at no time. Everything in general becomes nothing in particular.

We should not only refrain from thinking about gratifying our desires but also avoid focusing on not gratifying our desires. The way to deal with temptation is not to grit our teeth and make up our minds that we will not do a certain thing. The key is to fill our minds with other things.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

All anxiety is fear-based.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.