Mindfulness Quotes

Be happy at the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
S N Goenka
Mindfulness is the key to the present moment. Without it we cannot see the world clearly, and we cannot make the wisest choices in our lives.
Joseph Goldstein
The more precisely you note, the more clearly you understand. The more clearly you understand, the stronger your insight becomes.
Mahasi Sayadaw
The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.
Suzuki Roshi
What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.
Buddha
When you note pain, you should not dwell on the thought, "I feel pain." Simply recognize the presence of pain.
Mahasi Sayadaw
In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.
Dogen
When mindfulness and concentration are strong, insight into the three characteristics naturally unfolds.
Mahasi Sayadaw
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.
Pema Chodron
Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.
Mahasi Sayadaw
Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
Ajahn Chah
Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.
Padmasambhava
The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.
Matthieu Ricard
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.
Joseph Goldstein
We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.
Joseph Goldstein
The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.
Ajahn Brahm
When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.
Hakuin
Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.
Mingyur Rinpoche
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
Jack Kornfield
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
Suzuki Roshi
In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.
Mahasi Sayadaw
The practice of mindfulness transforms the mind from a place of suffering into an instrument of enlightenment.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Mindfulness is attention to life, and life itself is sacred.
Jack Kornfield
Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.
Joseph Goldstein
The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.
Buddha
Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.
Mahasi Sayadaw
When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.
Matthieu Ricard
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Buddha
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When mindfulness is weak, defilements are strong; when mindfulness is strong, defilements are weak.
Mahasi Sayadaw
The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.
Mahasi Sayadaw
When we rest in awareness, we discover a peace that is always present, regardless of circumstances.
Mingyur Rinpoche
One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.
Buddha
Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.
Joseph Goldstein
Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.
Matthieu Ricard
Life is available only in the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The four foundations of mindfulness are not separate practices but different aspects of the same practice of clear awareness.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
The technique of self-observation is the technique of observing the reality about oneself at the experiential level.
S N Goenka
The practice of mindfulness is simply to bring awareness to what we are doing, what we are saying, and what we are thinking.
Joseph Goldstein
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.
Dalai Lama
The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.
Ajahn Brahm
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.
Dalai Lama
Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.
Mingyur Rinpoche
The whole path of mindfulness is about letting go. We let go of our attachment to our views, our attachment to our opinions, our attachment to our ideas.
Joseph Goldstein
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.
Sharon Salzberg
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.
Mahasi Sayadaw
Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.
Robert Thurman
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation is not an escape from life but a way to fully engage with life.
Robert Thurman
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
Sharon Salzberg
When we look directly at our thoughts, they dissolve like bubbles in water.
Mingyur Rinpoche
In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.
D T Suzuki
Sensations are not your enemy. They are your teacher. Through observing them, you understand the truth of existence.
Mahasi Sayadaw
The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life.
Robert Thurman