Quotes about Mindfulness
things already are perfect, perfectly what they are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Dr. Lown's story graphically illustrates the enormous power that strongly held beliefs, which are in actuality just thoughts, can have on our health.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The interesting thing about this work is that we don't really do anything for them. If we tried, I think, we would fail miserably. Instead we invite them to do something radically new for themselves
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mostly we run around doing. Are you able to come to a stop in your life, even for one moment? Could it be this moment? What would happen if you did?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.
- Khalil Gibran
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
- Pema Chodron
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
- Pema Chodron
It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
- Ann Voskamp