Quotes about Mindfulness

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.

You must do whatever is necessary to be able to do this: recognize the presence of the person you love several times each day.

Whenever everyone's eyes are fixed on the earth—looking at the trees, plants, hills, mountains, or each other—then we know we are in the historical dimension, the world of birth and death. But when everyone's eyes look into space then we have entered the ultimate dimension, the unborn and undying world.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

When angry, count to 10 before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

How free you can become if you stop worrying about things that don't concern you!