Best Mindfulness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.”

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Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.”

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Author:Peter Shepherd

“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

“Living an awakened life [...] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both.”

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Book:Life Beyond Belief: Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice

Source: Life Beyond Belief: Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice

“The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.”

I Can Life Is Worst Mindfulness Insight Insult

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage healing. Creativity is mindfulness in motion-intuitive, artistic motion. Creative moments and activities give you a boost and help you feel energized and good about yourself.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.”

Way Doe Today Grows Mindfulness Plant Seeds Harvest Crops New Thought Sowing

Author:Mary Morrissey

“There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.”

Ifs Problem Reality Mindfulness No Problem

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.”

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Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.”

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Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.”

Trying Turns Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Perfection

Author:Frederick Lenz

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