Mindfulness Quotes

"Your inner life is your only true possession. Cultivate it in the garden of solitude."

"Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present."

"Mindfulness is the practice of becoming a neutral observer of your own mind."

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

"The world is just a mirror of our own internal state."

"The practice of Zen is eating when you are hungry and sleeping when you are tired."

"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present."

"The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"Discipline is the mastery of the internal environment."

"The Soul should always stand ajar / That if the Heaven inquire / He will not be obliged to wait / Or the Divinity of Fire"

"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths."

"Any kind of material form whatever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near, all material form should be seen as it actually is with proper wisdom thus: “This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.” Sutta 62, verse 3, p. 527"

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

"Without disarmament there can be no lasting peace. On the contrary, the continuation of military armaments in their present extent will with certainty lead to new catastrophies...For the creation of this public opinion in favor of disarmament every person living shares the responsibility, through ever deed and every word. writing for the 1932 Disarmament Conference, included in The Nation 1865-1990: Selections From the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (1990)"

"I am more and more convinced of the necessity of living in the present."

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

"Journaling is like a spiritual windshield wiper. It clears the grime of the day so you can see clearly."

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

"Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment."

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

"That is what I have to do: to tell the truth, to make myself heard, to provide a witness."

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

"The urge to check Twitter or refresh Reddit is a nervous twitch that shatters the integrity of your focus."

"Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves."

"Close your eyes and look at the inner world."

"Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. No day will have been wholly misspent, if one sincere, thoughtful page has been written. Let the daily tide leave some deposit on these pages, as it leaves sand and shells on the shore. So much increase of terra firma. this may be a calendar of the ebbs and flows of the soul; and on these sheets as a beach, the waves may cast up pearls and seaweed. July 6, 1840"

"To master your emotions, you must spend time alone analyzing why you feel the way you do."

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

"Happiness is the space between one desire being fulfilled and a new desire forming."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."