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.
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand.
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?
Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious of your consumption, what goes in and out, will help cut down on wastefulness.
For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.
First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.
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.
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.
To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.
Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.
When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.