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Mindfulness Quotes

Last updated: May 13, 2020

40 Mindfulness Quotes organized by Most Popular

“We need to change our way of thinking and seeing things. We need to realise that the Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is not something outside of us. Breathing with mindfulness and contemplating your body, you realise that you are the Earth. You realise that your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth. Look around you–what you see is not your environment, it is you.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Falling in Love with the Earth by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Tagged: Earth, World, Nature and Nurture, Environmentalism, change in thinking, people and nature, self and nature, be one with nature, Self-awareness, Self-Care, mindfulness
“When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
— Lao Tzu, A quote by Lao Tzu
Tagged: mindfulness, Understanding, Outlooks, Positivity, Self love
“The truth leads to self-mastery, to a life that’s very easy; our distortion of the truth often leads to needless conflict and human suffering. Awareness makes all the difference.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, Don Jose Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery (Toltec Wisdom)
Tagged: Mastery, Truth, mindfulness, Encouraging
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Tagged: depend, Imagination, Vision, Future, Mind, thoughtfulness, Perception, connectedness, Experience, Trust, Self-awareness, Think, mental power
“Enlightenment is growing all the time. It is not something that happens once and is then complete.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Mindfulness
Tagged: mindfulness
“Commitment is very rewarding when it is practiced with integrity, mindfulness, and skillfulness.”
— Phillip Moffitt
Tagged: Commitment, Integrity, mindfulness, skills
“Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of consciousness grows strong.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Consciousness, mindfulness
“How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child. ”
— Josh Baran, The Tao of Now: Daily Wisdom from Mystics, Sages, Poets, and Saints
Tagged: mindfulness, Life, Forever Young, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Being alert and curious about your fear allows it to become your teacher.”
— Phillip Moffitt
Tagged: Fear, mindfulness
“Having self-awareness with every single thing that enters our minds is key to filtering out the things that could cause dents and cracks in our delicate minds.”
— Shelby Leinbach, Here’s Why I Treat My Mind Like Fine China
Tagged: Quote of the Moment, Self-awareness, mindfulness
“Mindfulness has been shown to have a positive effect on numerous psychiatric, psychosomatic, and stress-related symptoms, including depression and chronic pain.”
— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Tagged: Trauma, PTSD, The Body Keeps The Score, Aftermath of Trauma, Narrative, Complex Trauma, Your Brain On Trauma, mindfulness, Depression, Toxic Stress
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are
Tagged: mindfulness, Knowledge, Understanding
“The older I get the more I realize that it is important to know the difference between when I should speak and when I should listen. I am not well-versed in many subjects that I care about so I listen and read to those who are.”
— Roxane Gay, When To Speak, When To Listen
Tagged: Tweets, Really Good Advice, Advice, Listening, Speaking, mindfulness
“Practice of mindfulness is like a boat and by practicing mindfulness you offer yourself a boat and you will not sink in a river of suffering.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Tagged: mindfulness
“The moment you start watching your thoughts, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Consciousness, Awakening, mindfulness, Thoughts
“Sitting mindfully with our sorrows and fears, or with those of another, is an act of courage. It is not easy.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Sorrow, fears, mindfulness
“How can we mindfully navigate this life? Can we foster a sense of interconnection with all life on this earth?”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: mindfulness, Connection, Life On Earth, Energy
“We all do better when we all do better.”
— Paul Wellstone, 1999 Sheet Metal Workers Speech
Tagged: Unions, Compassion, mindfulness
“If you want to know your own mind, there is only one way: to observe and recognize everything about it. This must be done at all times, during your day-to-day life no less than during the hour of meditation.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh—Twitter
Tagged: mindfulness, meditation
“Mindfulness requires retraining your brain to stay out of the mental clutter from the future and focus instead on the present moment. When you are mindful, you no longer attach to your thoughts. You are simply present in whatever you happen to be doing.”
— S.J. Scott, Barrie Davenport, Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking
Tagged: mindfulness, Declutter Your Mind
“People speak about drug addiction and alcoholism as the specific problem a person has. 'He's an alcoholic. He cannot control his drinking.' 'She is a heroin addict. She's dependent on drugs.' Yet the underlying condition of dis-ease is there first and then the behavior begins in order to address it.”
— Tommy Rosen, Recovery 2.0
Tagged: Addiction, dis-ease, mindfulness
“Nine years later, when I got to rehab, all drugs and alcohol were removed from my life. Guess what was waiting for me: my core issues, my condition, my dis-ease. Nine years of self-medication had not, in fact, cured me. Masked by my 'medicine' my issues had been patiently biding their time until the day came when I would have to work them out.”
— Tommy Rosen, Recovery 2.0
Tagged: Addiction, dis-ease, mindfulness
“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.”
— Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Tagged: food, nutrition, Culture, Society, mindfulness, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“When conditions are sufficient, a cloud transforms into rain, snow, or hail. The cloud has never been born and it will never die. This insight of signlessness and interbeing helps us recognize that all lives continue in different forms.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh—Twitter
Tagged: cloud, Rain, Snow, hail, mindfulness, signlessness
“Learn to be present and enjoy the moment.”
— Conscious Arrival, Conscious Arrival
Tagged: Conscious Arrival, mindfulness, be here now
“Yoga and life are different ways of saying the same thing.””
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life
Tagged: yoga, Life, mindfulness
“No medicine can be considered truly healing if its effects do not automatically render it obsolete in a reasonable amount of time.”
— Tommy Rosen, Recovery 2.0
Tagged: Addiction, dis-ease, mindfulness, Medicine, Pills
“Be free where you are.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh—Twitter
Tagged: Free, mindfulness
“I was dragged kicking and screaming into the present moment.”
— Dan Harris, The Power of Meditation
Tagged: Lewis Howes Podcast, mindfulness
“You are exactly where you need to be.”
— Conscious Arrival, Conscious Arrival
Tagged: Conscious Arrival, mindfulness
“For the mind to become settled in the present moment, in the midst of so much change, we must develop concentration.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Awakening, Concentration, mindfulness
“Anxiety plays tricks. It tells you that everything you feel is serious. Depression paints everything in black and white. Together, they skew perceptions.”
— Lucy Roleff, Let It Be: Using Mindfulness to Overcome Anxiety and Depression
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, mindfulness, overcoming anxiety, Skewing Perceptions, Cognitive Biases
“We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are
Tagged: mindfulness, emotions, Sadness, Feeling your feelings
“Learning mindfulness and increasing bodily awareness are key components of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which can help you to establish autonomy over your body in a way that is empowering rather than devaluing.”
— Shahida Arabi, Self-Harm: Self-Care Strategies For Healing And Recovery
Tagged: self-harm, Self-Care Strategies, DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, Bodily Awareness, Autonomy
“Sit just to enjoy your sitting; you don't need to attain any goal. Each moment of sitting meditation brings you back to life.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh—Twitter
Tagged: sitting, meditation, mindfulness
“I can almost bend steel with my mind. I can bend anything if I try hard enough. I can make myself do almost anything.”
— Martha Stewart
Tagged: mindfulness, Bending Steel, Determination
“What we think we become. And if what we are becoming is any indication, we are thinking far too much about the things that don’t matter and not making room for uncertainty, for discomfort, for the things that are indeed unknown but which yield the best outcomes. The ones that are indeed larger than our mind’s comprehension.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Art Of Mindlessness
Tagged: Mindlessness, mindfulness
“Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die. If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed. Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced, not just talked about.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh—Twitter
Tagged: Death, sickness, Concentration, Emptiness, mindfulness
“Within your mind you have access to the tools, ideas, attitudes, and knowledge that have the potential to create unlimited abundance.”
— Zhi Gang Sha, Adam Markel, Soul Over Matter: Ancient and Modern Wisdom and Practical Techniques to Create Unlimited Abundance
Tagged: Power of Mind, mindfulness, Knowledge, You're In Control
“When we breathe in and we know we're breathing in, that's mindfulness.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Mindfulness Quote from Twitter
Tagged: mindfulness