Meditation Mindfulness Quotes

• Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Meditation, Mind, Awareness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Profound

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• 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

  Life, Mean, Knowing

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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  Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Positive Thinking

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  Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Birthday, Happiness

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• 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 Chodron

  Buddhist, Walking Meditation, Ignorant

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

  Ma Jaya

  Yoga Practice, Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga

  Ma Jaya Bhagavati (2011). “The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You”, p.56, BookBaby

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• The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Buddhist, Meditation

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• We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhism, Night, Suffering

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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• Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mean, Knowing, Mindfulness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

  Nhat Hanh

  Friendship, Mindfulness, Precious Gifts

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.20, Penguin

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Being Happy, Gratitude, Attitude

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.90, Parallax Press

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• Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Life Changing, Heart, Meditation Practice

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• It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Crazy, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Psychics, Gifts Of The Spirit, Faithful Servants

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• Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Live In The Moment, Mindfulness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

  Alan Watts

  Dance, Journey, Play

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Mean, Practice

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Baby, Jesus, Buddhist

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mindfulness

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 16, 2013

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

  Daniel Goleman

  Meditation, Mindfulness, Moments

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