2,809 Quotes About Mindfulness

The mind is a powerful thing. It can bring you joy, or it can be your worst enemy. Cultivate your brain to cultivate your life

Mindfulness opposes judgment, conceptualization, words, language, reason, logic, knowledge, understanding, science, philosophy, mathematics, history, intellectualism, learning from the past and planning for the future. It reduces thoughtful humans to the state of thoughtless animals, prisoners of the ignorance of the moment, overwhelmed by primitive sense-certainty. And this is sold as a desirable state, something we should all aspire to!

The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.” Why is the Buddha much more popular than Descartes? Because the average person barely thinks at all.

The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can find. The idea of karma is a clear marker of self-obsession. People actually believe that the vast cosmos is infatuated about what they do - as opposed to completely indifferent - and goes to all the trouble of rearranging itself to teach them personal karmic "lessons.

That the past and the future are just ideas is proven by the undeniable fact that not being in the present moment is a mental phenomenon.

Is there a difference between meditation and mindfulness? In modern times, meditation has in some way been rebranded as mindfulness to make it more accessible from a deeper perspective when, in fact, they are two important aspects of one system of training. Meditation is where we sit down to train our minds using specific techniques. Mindfulness is how we bring our minds back from distraction during the meditation session.

As you lean into your mindfulness journey, there is no such thing asgetting better. There is going deeper, however, meaning establishing a deepening intimacy with your own intrinsic ability to pay attention on purpose, in the present moment, and without judgment, even when life is challenging.

A veiled irony, how true inspiration so rarely comes from within. Or if it does, it is so personal, it almost qualifies as selfishness.

Happenchance sparks with no matter who, waiting for love to arrive. To anyone, here I am, longing, as long as I am alive.