It is a good thing that you came here to know about mindfulness. It has become so popular these days because people are suffering from mental agony. To make them free from that unnecessary baggage that they are holding in the form of negative memories and imagination.
Mindfulness is a practice to make your mind stick to this moment, yes, exactly this moment not the last minute or next minute. You need to aware of everything that you are doing. Right now, you are reading this, that means your mind should not wander here and there. Even though you are reading right now, your monkey mind is thinking something else.
So to stop these you need to practice mindfulness. It will transform your life for sure. To know more about the importance of mindfulness. Here we collected mindfulness quotes.
Mindfulness Quotes
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“Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.”– Joseph Goldstein
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“Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.” – Sharon Salzberg
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“Feel the feeling but don’t become the emotion. Witness it. Allow it. Release it.” – Crystal Andrus
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“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.” — Eckhart Tolle
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“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.” – Sylvia Boorstein
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“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.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
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“Now is the future that you promised yourself last year, last month, last week. Now is the only moment you’ll ever really have. Mindfulness is about waking up to this.” – Mark Williams
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“Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
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“Mindfulness isn’t difficult; we just need to remember to do it.” — Sharon Salzberg
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“Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.” — Nhat Hanh
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“Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” — Mary Oliver
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“Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.” — Buddha
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“World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” — Amit Ray
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“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
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“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” – Amit Ray
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“If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.” — Nhat Hanh
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“A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear.”
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“Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.” – Osho
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“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz
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“Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.” – Buddha
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“The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh
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“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.” – Sylvia Boorstein
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“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” – Prema Chodron
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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. Including you.” – Anne Lamott
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“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
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“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.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
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“As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.” – Ayya Khema
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“In a world full of doing, it’s important to take a moment to just breathe, to just be.”
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“Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.”
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“If you listen completely, entirely, wholly, at the actual moment of listening there is no confusion, and that moment is enough.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“With mindfulness we can see the poetry and beauty all around us. We can see the miracles of life.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Your life should be a continuous death and a continuous resurrection so that you remain fresh to the very last breath.” – Osho“
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Mindfulness: the intentional use of attention.” – Leah Weiss
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“Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
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“Wherever you are be there totally.” – Eckhart Tolle
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“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” – Amith Ray
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“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.” – Idowu Koyenikan
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“Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.” – Buddha
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“Breathe.
Breathing in. I calm my body and mind.
Breathing out. I smile.
Dwelling in the present moment.
The only moment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Step outside for a while – calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
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“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah
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“Sometimes you just have to take a deep breath, relax, and let things go. Focus on what matters to you and who matters in your life. The rest will all work itself out. Just take it one step at a time.” – Tinybuddha
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“Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti
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“There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, “what if I fall?” Oh but my darling, what if you fly? – Erin Hanson
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“I’m doing my best to be mindful about how I’m living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.” – Deirdre O’Kane
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“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.” – Louis L’Amour
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“Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
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“When we stop resisting what is, the battle stops.” – Tamara Levitt
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“The point of power is always in the present moment.”
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“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
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“Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”
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“Peace, it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”
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“One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.” – Allan Lokos
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“Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom.” – Zen Proverb
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“Can we get to the place where there is no place to get to?” – Michael Stone
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“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thích Nhat Hanh
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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B Yeats
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“With awareness, we can make conscious choices, instead of letting our habitual thoughts and patterns run the show.” – Tamara Levitt
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“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what is happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what is happening.” – Sharon Salzberg
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“Wherever we are, we can take a deep breath, feel our body, open our senses and step outside the endless stories of the mind.” – Jack Kornfield
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“The thing about meditation is… you become more and more you.” – David Lynch
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“You don’t have to control your thoughts, you just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
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“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
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“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.” ― Sharon Salzberg
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“In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.” – Victoria Moran
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“Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside.” – Barry Neil Kaufman
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“We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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Mindfulness is clarity. Clarity of thought. Clarity of intent. Clarity of action. When you possess this level of clarity you are able to be in control of most levels of your life. And being in control is one of the most powerful feelings one can experience. Adrian Lliopoulos
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“Mindfulness could also be described as “heartfulness” because it is really about a compassionate awareness.” – Mark Williams
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“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
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“If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.” — Nhat Hanh
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“Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life — with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness. Without this freedom and concentration, there is no happiness.” – Thich Nhat Han