Mindful Living Quotes

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that "This too shall pass" reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.

The future is always beginning now.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

Live each day as if it were your last for some day it will be.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

Don't believe everything you think.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

find your eternity in each moment

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

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!

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.