2,809 Quotes About Mindfulness

Everything that makes up your organism comes from the environment in which you live.

One of the fundamental delusions that most people have is the delusion that this “I” exists as an independent entity, as something separate from the whole of life.

The ego is not who we are, it is who we think we are. When we think of our name, our image, our history, and our life experiences as who we are, we become associated with an idea of ourselves, a mental image that is not at all who we are in reality.

If we stop completely, not just outwardly, but inwardly, we will see that there is no truth to our self-image; it is completely mind-made.

Our entire purpose is to solve the ultimate problems of existence. The task of the meditators and the mindfulness advocates is to flee from every problem, solve no problems, and become animals, devoid of consciousness, untroubled by judgment. They dream of living non-judgmentally in the moment. That’s what cows do. The message of Eastern mysticism and New Ageism is Become a Cow!

Mindfulness” is the purest mindlessness. It is the great and perverse desire to annihilate consciousness and exist in an eternal now of unthinking perception of nothing at all. It is the most nihilistic vision there has ever been. It is “nirvana” – absolute nothingness, the state of infinite anti-consciousness.

The practice of meditation is like a long journey in the beautiful countryside. If you focus on the brakes, the speed dial, the accelerator, the mirror too often - you will take the fun out of the journey

Like the past, the future is merely an idea; a mere thought.

We can have a calm connection with our practice if we appreciate that mindful meditation is the cause of inner peace. Through not expecting immediate results and having confidence in the methods, our mind will naturally open and relax. When we create the causes of inner peace, the effects will ripen naturally in their own time.