Mindfullness Quotes

“Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“The function of mindfulness is, first, to recognize the suffering and then to take care of the suffering. The work of mindfulness is first to recognize the suffering and second to embrace it. A mother taking care of a crying baby naturally will take the child into her arms without suppressing, judging it, or ignoring the crying. Mindfulness is like that mother, recognizing and embracing suffering without judgement.

So the practice is not to fight or suppress the feeling, but rather to cradle it with a lot of tenderness. When a mother embraces her child, that energy of tenderness begins to penetrate into the body of the child. Even if the mother doesn't understand at first why the child is suffering and she needs some time to find out what the difficulty is, just her acto f taking the child into her arms with tenderness can alreadby bring relief. If we can recognize and cradle the suffering while we breathe mindfully, there is relief already.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

“One can observe that such changes in the breath are the direct result of your reaction to thoughts. If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle.”
― Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Cosmic Ordering Meditation

“If you change the way your brain processes an event, you change the duration of the ‘now.’ You actually change the point at which the present becomes the past.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Imperfect action beats perfect planning.”
― Sharon Pearson, Ultimate You: When you know you can't ignore the whisper inside that says... It's your time...

“It has gone nowhere, you have gone somewhere. We are all nowhere until we go somewhere. Your mind is full again, but not because it is empty, you only think it is full.”
― Michael Kilman, Upon Stilted Cities: The Battle for Langeles

“When we know what we don’t want, we can give full attention to coming into alignment with what we do want.”
― Leonie H. Mattison, BESIDE STILL WATERS: Finding Rest, Refreshment, and Restoration for Your Soul: A 21-Day Devotional for Survivors of Abuse

“A fit body & mind complement a healthy life.”
― Ashwin Muthiah, Chairman, AM International

“You must be gentle with yourself every day anew, so that the harshness of this world does not seep into your soul.”
― Jan Lenarz

“Taming the mind is the process of refining away mental afflictions until we aren't ruled by our circumstances and the negative thoughts and emotions they elicit.”
― Khentrul Lodrö T'hayé Rinpoche

“Not all your family or friends will be happy when you succeed, nor will everyone be saddened when you lose; so, be careful with whom you're sharing your personal business.”
― Kianu Starr

“When your body, mind, soul, and spirit are tuned into your thoughts, feelings, and actions, your life will change!”
― Deborah Lucero, Be F*#%Ing Amazing!: 70 Healing Insights to Live Your Full Life

“We were all created to inspire.”
― Lisa McClendon, The Adventures of L.J. the Great: I'm So Proud of Myself

“Self-discovery and self-growth are meant to teach us many lessons, allowing us to be the type of person that can add to another's existence, complimenting them. Being complete means that the energy we expend can be used not only to enrich but to heal others.”
― Lochan Kalicharan, Unchained

“Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“The human body has some amazing abilities. One of these is our ability to adapt: people can adapt to almost any kind of circumstances in the long run..
We are the biochemists of our own body.”
― Bertalan Thuroczy, Believe, Live, Run: A story about having faith

“What we do in solitude defines us.”
― RESHMA CHEKNATH UMESH, Dear Reader, by, Julie and other stories

“Stop oscillating from the future and the past, be here in the now.”
― Jon Luvelli

“Poetry Is Language Dancing.”
― Orna Ross, Keepers: A Book of Motivational Poems

“There is no wise writing without a wise reader.”
― Orna Ross, After the Rising

“In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.”

Read in: A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st Century by Gelong Thubten”
― Shunryu Suzuki

“Although you may not have control of what enters your mind, you do have control over what is kept within and that which exits your mind.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“Among the things that ward off worry and anxiety is to concentrate one's attention and concern oneself with the affairs of the present, and to stop being anxious about the future, or grieving over the past. This is why the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be on him sought refuge in Allah from anxiety and grief' Grief is usually over past events that you can neither bring back nor rectify. Anxiety is usually fear and concern over what will come in the future.

Therefore a person should be the 'son of the moment’, concentrating his energy and attention in the betterment of his existing events, and his present moments. Concentrating attention over the affairs of the moment is the necessary cause of their accomplishment, and it is what gets rid of grief and anxiety from the heart.”
― Abdur-Rahman bin Nasir As-Sadi, Useful Ways of Leading a Happy Life

“How much of your life do you spend looking forward to being somewhere else?”
― Matthew Flickstein, Journey to the Center: A Meditation Workbook

“There’s a quiet beauty in washing up, in its simple rhythm, in the way the small, ordinary task becomes something more—an indulgence in sensation, a taste of luxury in a life where luxuries are few.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“Everybody so caught up in this and that, that you don't notice what's right in front of you”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“The earth has been patient with us for a very long time. It will wait a little longer. But the morning — this morning, with its particular light and its particular silence — will not.”
― Ayisha Bhatti, The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out

“To trust the slow work of the sacred is to discover that the ground has always been there. That it was holding us before we noticed it. That the peace we were searching for in the resolution of our circumstances was available, all along, beneath them — in the stillness we kept moving too fast to find.”
― Ayisha Bhatti, The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out

“The morning is not the ramp to the rest of the day. It is the day's first gift — offered fresh, without condition, before we have done anything to earn it or anything to diminish it. How we receive it shapes everything that follows.”
― Ayisha Bhatti, The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out

“Silence is not empty. It is the presence of everything we have not yet had the stillness to hear.”
― Ayisha Bhatti, The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out