Mindfulness is the constant awareness of everything that is happening, both inside our heads – our thoughts and feelings – and in our external environment. The idea is to completely let go of any anxiety or tension about what we’d like to happen by focussing purely on the present moment. These beautiful mindfulness quotes succintly sum up what mindfulness is all about.
Mindfulness Quotes
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
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.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
Eckhart Tolle
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Sharon Salzberg
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.
John Grossman
As soon as we wish to be happier, we are no longer happy.
Walter Landor
The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it.
Ram Dass
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.
Ramana Maharshi
Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different than they are.
Allan Lokos
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Amit Ray
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.
Victoria Moran
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Buddha
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.
Victor Frankl
We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Always hold fast to the present. Every situation,indeed every moment,is of infinite value,for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life, reaching far beyond the people and places you can see.
Earon Davis
Quotes About Mindfulness
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