Quotes on Mindful Living

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

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.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

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 spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.