Meditation Mindfulness Quotes

We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention. ~ Sharon Salzberg

When we're present our senses are heightened, and we can enjoy so much more of what we're seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling. ~ Ora Nadrich

You will always attract the situation that you think about, focus on, meditate upon and that's what law of attraction states. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

Be still. Be silent. Be soulfully present. In love. With love. As love. ~ Alexandra Domelle

There is nectar in your soul. Meditation is the art of discovering that nectar, enriching it and distributing it for the welfare of the humanity. ~ Amit Ray

Living on the verge is not about doing more, but about being more. It isn't about achieving more; it's about experiencing more. It's not about being someone different, as there 's no "better version of you" on the horizon. Everything you're searching for is available to you in this moment. Everything you need is right here on the verge. ~ Cara Bradley

Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one's friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion. ~ Sharon Salzberg

It's affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is on all the unfortunate things we have done, all the disturbing mistakes we have made. Yet this classical reflection is not a way of increasing conceit. It is rather a commitment to our own happiness, seeing our happiness as the basis for intimacy with all of life. It fills us with joy and love for ourselves and a great deal of self-respect. Significantly, when we do metta practice, we begin by directing metta toward ourselves. This is the essential foundation for being able to offer genuine love to others ~ Sharon Salzberg

Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent. ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Life is short, so let us make it worthwhile to live. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God, is to lose a sense of the very thing that distinguishes God as God. ~ A.J. Conyers

Equanimity can be hard to talk about. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is about mindfulness and learning to strip away the illusion, revealing your authentic self and connectedness to everything and everyone. ~ Nanette Mathews

Habit has two parts, Toni [Packer] says. There is the habit itself (finger biting, smoking, drinking, whatever), and there is the observer who wants to stop, who is also a habit. And there is the conflict, the battle between the desire to indulge, which is an escape from what is, and the desire to stop, which is also a movement away from what is. ~ Joan Tollifson

Simply BEING is OKAY you know?
If you make space to 'be', your 'doing' becomes whole and balanced. ~ Kelly Martin

Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks, the ringing monuments of rock that, freed from the talons of ice and snow, thrust an implacable being into the blue. In the early light, the rock shadows on the snow are sharp; in the tension between light and dark is the power of the universe. This stillness to which all returns, this is reality, and soul and sanity have no more meaning than a gust of snow; such transience and insignificance are exalting, terrifying, all at once ... Snow mountains, more than sea or sky, serve as a mirror to one's own true being, utterly still, utterly clear, a void, an Emptiness without life or sound that carries in Itself all life, all sound. ~ Peter Matthiessen

Being in the present with total awareness allows us to observe it so that we can watch its unfolding as if we were watching the sun rise or set. We don't tell the sun how to do what it knows to do so brilliantly, we simply watch, and we experience what we're seeing with acceptance ~ Ora Nadrich

You cannot control the results, only your actions. ~ Allan Lokos

When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love. ~ Sharon Salzberg

If life seems tedious, there is always beautiful nature outside with birds chirping, gentle wind flowing, sun shining where we can seek joy from and get elated. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

Mindfulness isn't inherently Eastern, just as electricity isn't inherently Western. Mindfulness is a quality of presence that's innate in all human beings. ~ Shamash Alidina

Mindfulness needs not to be practiced only during meditation instead it can be practiced in every act we do. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

We can learn to return home to our open hearts at any moment. ~ Loch Kelly

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside. ~ Eknath Easwaran

Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind. ~ Roshan Sharma

Out of calmness comes clarity. ~ Trevor Carss

The study of modern mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence is deeply rooted in the ancient Vipassana meditation techniques. ~ Amit Ray

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment. ~ Sharon Salzberg

The more mindful we are in observing the nature, the more beauty and joy we can derive from it. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

Her beauty is untouchable. ~ Erin Fall Haskell

The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love. ~ Sharon Salzberg

In my personal recovery, mindfulness has helped me to become aware of my trauma responses and given me an anchor to stay present when I have been triggered. Being able to feel my triggers without reacting must be largely credited to learning to anchor myself in my body through mindful body scan meditation. ~ Christopher Dines

Our inner experiences are the results of the quantum attention functions. The universe is an ocean of quantum attention functions. We also can have direct access to the experiences of others just by focusing our attention functions. ~ Amit Ray

Rest as the awareness that is aware without using thought. ~ Loch Kelly

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier. ~ Sharon Salzberg

A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect. ~ Sharon Salzberg

A beautiful natural wonder may also not give us joy, if our mind is agitated. Once mind is calm and in present moment, we see things as it is. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

Looking for some peace? Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths....That inner connection and peace are always available to you, at any moment. ~ Nanette Mathews

Mindfulness is like entering a darkened room and turning on the lights of perception. ~ David Pollak

Can an atheist practice yoga? Can an agnostic sit in meditation? Absolutely! Belief in God is not a requirement for practice. The only requirement for practice is the willingness to accept that you are not God. To surrender to
the possibility that while an all-knowing God may not govern the universe, neither do you. ~ Darren Main

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Our subconscious thought patterns collapses the quantum wave function and generates the reality. Meditation is streamlining the thought patterns. ~ Amit Ray

As I started going deeper into meditation, I realised that its silence is more melodious than all the songs of the world. ~ Shivanshu K. Srivastava

Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results. ~ Aysha Taryam

Gratitude is both a vaccine and an antidote for grief. Grief may be an inevitable fact of life, but gratitude has the power to transform the experience of grief from agonizing suffering to profound joy. ~ Darren Main

Look deeply at your anger, as you would look at your own child. Don't reject it or hate it. The point of meditation is not to turn yourself into a battlefield, one side opposing the other. Conscious breathing soothes and calms the anger, and mindfulness penetrates it. Anger is just an energy, and all energies can be transformed. Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

We have nothing to fear from others because approval and acceptance lies within ourselves.

from Chapter 4 ~ Mare Chapman

When you become responsive to the solicitations of silence, you may be called to explore the invitation. This exploration is a kind of laboratory. You may sit and observe the coming and going of perceptions. You remain present to them but do not follow them. Following a thought is what maintains it. If you remain present without becoming an accomplice, agitation slows down through lack of fuel. In the absence of agitation you are taken by the resonance of stillness. ~ Jean Klein

Freedom of will is our birthright. ~ Jean Moreau, Abbey Of Kervennec, France

If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us. ~ Nyanaponika Thera

When you surrender, when you let go, when you Just Be, you are granted the best seats in the theatre of Life. From here, you watch the
drama unfold. But you are not in it. You are not ofit. You Just Are. ~ Alexandra Domelle

The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell. ~ Sam Harris

Compassion dissolves ignorance. ~ Alaric Hutchinson

A close examination of the instructions in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta reveals that the meditator is never instructed to interfere actively with what happens in the mind. If a mental hindrance arises, for example, the task of satipaṭṭhāna contemplation is to know that the hindrance is present, to know what has led to its arising, and to know what will lead to its disappearance. A more active intervention is no longer the domain of satipaṭṭhāna, but belongs rather to the province of right effort (sammā vāyāma).

The need to distinguish clearly between a first stage of observation and a second stage of taking action is, according to the Buddha, an essential feature of his way of teaching. The simple reason for this approach is that only the preliminary step of calmly assessing a situation without immediately reacting enables one to undertake the appropriate action. ~ Analayo

Every moment of the life is passed thorough this very moment, let's give our best to this moment without worrying past or future. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

There will be many reasons to be angry or agitated, but one reason to have inner peace is enough to prevent that. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

İf you can change your brain, by the use of mindfulness and meditation, you can also change your life. Your life is what you think about your life. And whatever you think is closely related to what is going on in the brain.Therefore, let's start with a change in the brain. ~ Elmar Hussein

When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away. ~ Sharon Salzberg

One way not to be overwhelmed with a situation is to think that it could be worst. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates. ~ Allan Lokos

Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns (….) ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

A man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing. ~ Pico Iyer

Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life. ~ Waylon H. Lewis

True human connection is found at the level of pure consciousness. ~ Patrick Zeis

To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. ~ Sharon Salzberg

As human beings, we're capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life. ~ Sharon Salzberg

We can never know a person completely as there is only one thing changeless and that is change itself. ~ Tonmoy Acharjee

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy. ~ Allan Lokos

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun, fear, and self are one. What is exhilarating is to extend this acute awareness into ordinary moments, in the moment-by-moment experiencing of the lammergeier and the wolf, which, finding themselves at the center of things, have no need for any secret of true being. In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us ... the present moment. The purpose of mediation practice is not enlightenment' it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. ~ Peter Matthiessen

The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences - good and bad alike - are opportunities to learn and grow. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace. ~ Alaric Hutchinson

Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon. Public health revolutions can happen rapidly. Most Americans didn't brush their teeth until after world war 2 after soldiers were demanded to maintain oral hygiene. Exercise didn't get popular until science proved its benefits. Mindfulness, I had come to believe, could, in fact, change the world. ~ Dan Harris

Essentially, meditation allows us to live in ways that are less automatic. This necessarily means less time spent worrying, ruminating, and trying to control things we can't control. It means we become less vulnerable to the throes of the fear-driven, older parts of our brains, and freer to use our newer and more sophisticated mental abilities: patience, compassion, acceptance and reason. ~ David Cain

Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2). ~ Christina Feldman

We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are. ~ Allan Lokos

Compassion becomes an integral part of our spiritual
work, and we are truly motivated by it to help awaken everyone we come into contact with, in hopes that they can
see the light and love in their hearts, and be inspired to
do the same for others. Together we can help spread less
suffering on the planet, and carry on a goal for universal
awakening. ~ Ora Nadrich

The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets. ~ Sharon Salzberg

If you meditate in perfect peace and then flash someone an irritable look because they make noise or their child cries, you are entirely missing the point. ~ Khandro Rinpoche

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness. ~ Sharon Salzberg

A bird doesn't attempt to swim, and a cat doesn't attempt to fly. Yet both are
completely content. Their dharma is anchored in instinct. Humans are continually trying to live out of accord with their dharma and so contentment remains elusive. ~ Darren Main

When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle. ~ Sharon Salzberg

A good laughter is as uplifting as a good teaching, for it is simply meditation. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Nobody can really see into the future.
So see into the present.
Appreciate what is in front of you right now.
We can all become 'here'voyants. ~ David Cuschieri

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. ~ Daniel Goleman

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation. ~ Aldous Huxley

Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight. ~ L.M. Browning

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. ~ Alan Watts

We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks. ~ Amit Ray

The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it "has no patience with mysticism, far less the occult." Nor does it have any time with moralism, the prescriptions or distortions we would impose on the world, obscuring it from our view. It asks, it insists rather, that we take this moment for what it is, undistracted, and not cloud it with needless worries of what might have been or fantasies of what might come to be. It is, essentially, a training in the real ... "the Universe itself is the scripture of Zen." Pico Iyer from introduction. ~ Peter Matthiessen

Meditation isn't only the act of successfully keeping your attention on the breath, it's the whole period of time you spend with the intention to observe the breath. It is this intention and its application - not your success at achieving perfect concentration - that is responsible for the benefits of meditation. ~ David Cain

Mind is the altar, mind is the temple, mind is the lord and mind is the gospel. ~ Abhijit Naskar

It is easy to make the mistake of thinking yoga is about touching your toes when in fact yoga is about learning to touch others. Likewise, many people think the purpose of meditation is a perfectly still mind, when in fact, it is a more compassionate heart. Spiritual practice is measured by one's ability to ease the suffering of the world one breath at a time. ~ Darren Main

Meditation is the brain's way to exercise. ~ Abhijit Naskar