M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.”
“Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.”
“Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.”
Source: The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
“Mindfulness helps leaders to constantly be aware of the culture they envision and to align their thoughts, words and actions with that desired culture.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.”
Source: Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program
“Mindfulness helps us see perfection in the ordinary.”
“Mindfulness helps us stay right here, even when it’s uncomfortable staying right here, and this is something very important for us to learn. We must discipline our mind to be present, aware, and focused, even when we would rather do anything but that.”
Source: Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness
“Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal.”
Source: Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
“Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Mindfulness helps us to recognise the value of the present moment, which we often miss while going about ‘living’ our lives.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.”
Source: Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace
“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.”
“Mindfulness improves your capacity for self-discovery and empowerment.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
“Mindfulness increases the awareness of the Nature of the Mind. If we learn to Control our Mind and Listen to our Souls we can consciously choose to be Joyful instead of sad, Peaceful and Loving, Alert and Relaxed.”
Source: Mindful Being
“Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.”
“Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.”
“Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.”
“Mindfulness is a quiet strength and deeply rooted value which many other cultures understand and often practice better than we do. It can be puzzling to people from other countries as to why Americans are so task-driven and action-oriented.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mindlessness, on the other hand, or "no-mindness" as it has been called, is a condition of such complete absorption that there is not vestige of self-awareness.”
“Mindfulness is a way of bringing our attention into the present and living in that awareness. It can be applied to all aspects of daily life to transform even the most ordinary moments.”
Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto
“Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.”
“Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip the scale in the direction of greater equanimity, clarity, wisdom, and self-compassion by actually learning how to inhabit that other dimension of our being.”
“Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.”
“Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.”
Source: A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit
“Mindfulness is about integrating a meditative approach with your way of life.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.”
“Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. All ethics and morality, and a sense of interconnectedness, come out of the act of paying attention.”
“Mindfulness is about the awareness of what energies you collect and transmit during the day.”
Source: Quantraz
“Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.”
Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
“Mindfulness is an invitation to change that pattern and to become aware of where we are and how we got here. Mindfulness gives us a chance to listen to the wisdom of our hearts, to notice with more clarity where we get in our own way, and to shift from reacting out of habit to responding from our intentions.”
Source: Work That Matters: Create a Livelihood That Reflects Your Core Intention
“Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances.”
“Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.”
“Mindfulness is awareness of everything that is happening in the moment of 'Now'. Mindfulness is a self development technique that will change the focus of our mind towards happiness.”
Source: Mindful Being
“Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute by precious minute, you are better able to savor each experience. Also, being closely attentive gives you the opportunity to change unwise or painful feelings and responses quickly. In fact, being truly present in a mindful way is an excellent stress reducer and, because of that, can be seen as consciousness conditioning, a strengthening workout for body, mind, heart, and spirit.”
Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart
“Mindfulness is being in a state of total awareness of the contents of our mind, which makes us more conscious of what we’re thinking and feeling.”
Source: Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness
“Mindfulness is being in a state of total awareness of the contents of our minds, which makes us more conscious of what we’re thinking and feeling.”
Source: Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness
“Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.”
Source: The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
“Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.”
Source: The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha
“Mindfulness is by far the most supreme expression of gratefulness for being alive.”
“Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front of us, we set aside our mental and emotional baggage. To be mindful we have to re-train our mind.”
Source: Mindful Being
“Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.”
Source: How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness
“Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them.”
“Mindfulness is essential to frame control. It's crucial to just pay attention to your surroundings, thoughts, feelings, and responses to the situation or encounter in which you find yourself.”
“Mindfulness is here for you, but you must use it, or it remains a valuable quality wasted. It will help you when you are sad or feeling hopeless by making you more aware of what’s troubling you so you can know what to do about it.”
Source: Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness
“Mindfulness is incredibly important to ensure we are aware of the actions we take.”
“Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.”
Source: On Meditation
“Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings
“Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.”
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition
“Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awareness to the present moment.”
Source: Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
“Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.”