M Quotes
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“Mindfulness is not entering into another planet. It is making you good at what you do. It is restoring your link to the source of life.”
Source: Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
“Mindfulness is not just a word or a
discourse by the Buddha, but a
meaningful state of mind. It means
we have to be here now, in this very
moment, and we have to know what
is happening internally and
externally. It means being alert to
our motives and learning to change
unwholesome thoughts and
emotions into wholesome ones
Mindfulness is a mental activity that
in due course eliminates all
suffering.”
“Mindfulness is not just about being present, but also about being curious, compassionate, and non-judgmental towards our thoughts and emotions. It is a powerful tool that allows us to connect with ourselves and the world around us in a more meaningful way.”
Source: Favored For Life: A 21 Day Journey Of Grace
“Mindfulness is not something that you should race for or struggle for. Or it will end up being another rat race.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.”
Source: Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
“Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
“Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.”
“Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with your eyes, but beautiful feelings, beautiful awareness. There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.”
“Mindfulness is resilience-making.
It’s like hydrating before a big race: you might not be thirsty when you’re drinking,
but you’re stronger and prepared when reserves are low.”
Source: BIG: the practice of joy
“Mindfulness is simply being in the moment. and witnessing the spinning of life. It is resting in the moment and noticing how the autumn leaves fall, knowing it is time to leave, and yet doing nothing. Mindfulness is witnessing how the trees stand bare in winter, and yet remaining still. It is noticing how the seasons come and go, leaving their footprints, yet remaining unperturbed inside, sensing the still deep observer.”
“Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.”
“Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.”
“Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
“Mindfulness is the art of being present in whatever you are doing, whatever you are thinking. It involves holding up each thought, examining its value and utility and discarding it if it is debilitating or wasteful. Hold up each thought just the way you would see a dew drop hanging on to a blade of grass – if the thought is empowering or inspiring, let it be; if it is making you feel suffocated or frustrated, shake it off, let it go. Mindfulness is like any other art – over time, with practice, it can be learnt.”
“Mindfulness is the art of cosmic collaboration.”
Source: Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
“Mindfulness is the art of experiencing the nonexistence of the past and the future.”
“Mindfulness is the art of living in the present moment without losing focus on the future. It allows us to be self-aware while we go about the affairs of our lives.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“Mindfulness is the art of making love to reality.”
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.”
Source: It's easier than you think: the Buddhist way to happiness
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.”
“Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.”
“Mindfulness is the difficult art of simply replacing thinking with experiencing.”
“Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Mindfulness is the extremely difficult art of leaving the past and the future alone.”
“Mindfulness is the gateway to awakening. Being mindful, we find wholeness, and sense that the great awakening is not a distant star, but it is living wholly in this moment's light.”
“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.”
“Mindfulness is the manifestation of the belief in the fact that what is happening is more important than what has, should have, or could have happened, and what will, should, or could happen.”
“Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.”
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”
“Mindfulness is the open-hearted energy of being aware in the present moment. It’s the daily cultivation—practice—of touching life deeply.”
“Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.”
“Mindfulness is the state of mind when you appreciate others' perspectives while isolating your own.”
Source: Quantraz
“Mindfulness is the way of breaking free from the prison of the past and the lure of an idealized future. Being mindful is the way of stepping out of the unreal into the real, out of the illusory into actuality. Leaving behind the imagined filters of life, we walk into the unfiltered truth of existence.”
“Mindfulness is to train your awareness to be focused on your present moment and on whatever you are doing in the present moment and nothing else.”
Source: A Missing Drop: Free Your Mind From Conditioning And Reconnect To Your Truest Self
“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”
“Mindfulness isn't necessarily about awakening within. Awakening wisdom teaches me how my exterior and interior life are not separate. What happens in the world is happening within me, and vice versa.”
Source: Pause, Breathe, Smile: Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation Is Not Enough
“Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”
“Mindfulness keeps you on top of your thinking mind in such a way that you become
the gatekeeper of your thoughts.”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“Mindfulness makes a year feel like a decade, whereas mindlessness does the opposite.”
“Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.”
“Mindfulness means being present to whatever is happening here and now - when mindfulness is strong, there is no room left in the mind for wanting something else. With less liking and disliking of what arises, there is less pushing and pulling on the world, less defining of the threshold between self and other, resulting in a reduced construction of self. As the influence of self diminishes, suffering diminishes in proportion.”
Source: Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
“Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.”
Source: Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Mindfulness means paying attention to what is happening at this very moment and being keenly aware of your surroundings and the people in it.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”
“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. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.”
Source: Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein – A Down-to-Earth Guide to Meditation and Being for Calm, Clarity, and Joy
“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.”
“Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being attached to them. Non-attachment to past & future stems from this practice. Worry about past or future is wasted energy, however we can observe the past & learn from it without agonising over it & trust ourselves to handle the future better. We can celebrate the opportunity to grow as we gain understanding from observation & experience. We can watch ourselves & avoid being caught up in over-reactions. "I am loved, right now, in this moment, I love, and am part of love itself. I am aware of myself at every level - the mental slowing gracefully to sense the spiritual within & all around, and the physical being still, or moving. I tune in to the flow of life in my body & the flow of life everywhere. I circulate love with each breath - from without to within & from within to all around.”