Mindfulness Quotes

• How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Meditation
  • Breath
  • Mindfulness

• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Stress
  • Meditation

• Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Mindfulness

• Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it’s OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Help
  • Free
  • Science

• In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Attention

• Mindfulness meditation teaches you to recognise memories and damaging thoughts as they arise. It reminds you that they are memories. They are like propaganda, they are not real. They are not you. You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Eyes

• Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Life
  • Compassion
  • Mindfulness

• If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Reality
  • Energy
  • Mean

• Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

  

  Dustin Moskovitz
  • Life
  • Thoughts
  • Mindfulness

• When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Work
  • Children
  • Happy

• I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.

  

  Finn Jones
  • World
  • Always
  • Seeing

• Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Heart
  • Attention
  • Meditation

• Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Present
  • Weapon
  • Microscope

• As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Powerful

• In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become. These

  

  Mark Williams
  • World
  • Fear
  • Become

• What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Powerful
  • Mindfulness

• The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Attention
  • Space
  • Present

• For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It's one of those things where, if you're not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there's a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Food
  • Emotional
  • Thoughtful

• Mindfulness cultivates our ability to do things knowing that we're doing them.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Things
  • Mindfulness

• Doing mode is not an enemy to be defeated, but is often an ally. Doing mode only becomes a “problem” when it volunteers for a task that it cannot do, such as “solving” a troubling emotion. When this happens, it pays to “shift gear” into “Being” mode. This is what mindfulness gives us: the ability to shift gears as we need to, rather than being permanently stuck in the same one.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Problem
  • Enemy
  • Emotion

• Mindfulness is about observation without criticism; being compassionate with yourself.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Yourself
  • Criticism
  • Mindfulness

• The development of our minds and our destination in future lives is in our hands. No one else can help us. It is very important that we each take responsibility for ourselves. Sustain mindfulness 24 hours a day. Thank you. That is all.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Help
  • Future

• Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Work
  • Art
  • Space

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