Mindfulness Quotes

"Each morning, I wake up and think, 'The world is a part of me'. " "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?" "The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button." "There is no joy without gratitude." "The less I needed, the better I felt." "To make the best of both worlds in every sense of that phrase and bring peace to mind and heart." "You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are" "I have to live my life one day at a time." "We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn" "In the end, everything is seen to be perfect " "Silence? What can be better than to sit thus by the hour and be soothed with the world" "Thankfulness is a key to contentment" "You need to let go of the idea of there being a single solution so that you can be ready for something better than that." "It is only when you realign your mind to one-pointedness that you will be able to reflect the divine vision within" "When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever, and you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are." "I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present" "The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don’t even realize it." "Our job is not to judge" "Sometimes joy is a radical act" "I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it, I was unhappy in the pursuit "