Quotes on Meditation Mindfulness

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.