Mindfulness has been a way of life for me as far as I can remember. It is the power to live, love, heal and just live in the present.
Here are 21 mindfulness quotes to help you experience “the joy of being” in the moment:
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.”
― Stephen Richards
“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
― Robin Sharma
“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.”
― Pema Chödrön
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“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
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.”
― Maezumi Roshi
“If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.”
― Richard Bach
“Our subconscious thought patterns collapses the quantum wave function and generates the reality. Meditation is streamlining the thought patterns.”
― Amit Ray
“In the end, just three things matter:
How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go”
― Jack Kornfield
“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
― Louis L’Amour
“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”
― Deepak Chopra
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
― Thich Nhat Hang
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray
“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent
“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
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Written by Gagan Dhawan
