2,809 Quotes About Mindfulness

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.

It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.