Mindfulness Quotes

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

- Walter Hagen

"Take time to stop and smell the roses."

- Walter Hagen

"It’s not the situation that’s causing your stress, it’s your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think."

- Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD

"We only live once, Snoopy, Wrong! We only die once. We live every day!"

- Snoopy

"Walking causes a repetitive, spontaneous poetry to rise naturally to the lips, words as simple as the sound of footsteps on the road. There also seems to be an echo of walking in the practice of two choruses singing a psalm in alternate verses, each on a single note, a practice that makes it possible to chant and listen by turns. Its main effect is one of repetition and alternation that St Ambrose compared to the sound of the sea: when a gentle surf is breaking quietly on the shore the regularity of the sound doesn’t break the silence, but structures it and renders it audible. Psalmody in the same way, in the to-and-fro of alternating responses, produces (Ambrose said) a happy tranquillity in the soul. The echoing chants, the ebb and flow of waves recall the alternating movement of walking legs: not to shatter but to make the world’s presence palpable and keep time with it. And just as Claudel said that sound renders silence accessible and useful, it ought to be said that walking renders presence accessible and useful."

- Frédéric Gros

"Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship."

- Frédéric Gros

"Blinding, mineral, shattering silence. You hear nothing but the quiet crunch of stones underfoot. An implacable, definitive silence, like a transparent death. Sky of a perfectly detached blue. You advance with eyes down, reassuring yourself sometimes with a silent mumbling. Cloudless sky, limestone slabs filled with presence: silence nothing can sidestep. Silence fulfilled, vibrant immobility, tensed like a bow. There’s the silence of early morning. For long routes in autumn you have to start very early. Outside everything is violet, the dim light slanting through red and gold leaves. It is an expectant silence. You walk softly among huge dark trees, still swathed in traces of blue night. You are almost afraid of awakening. Everything whispering quietly. There’s the silence of walks through the snow, muffled footsteps under a white sky. All around you nothing moves. Things and even time itself are iced up, frozen solid in silent immobility. Everything is stopped, unified, thickly padded. A watching silence, white, fluffy, suspended as if in parentheses."

- Frédéric Gros

"Look for BEAUTYListen with LOVE Live with INTENTION"

- Author Unknown

"To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source."

- Debbie Ford

"The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in."

- Sylvia Boorstei

"Upon getting up each morning, we can reflect on how we can’t be certain if the day will unfold as we think it will and then resolve to greet it nonetheless with curiosity and wisdom. Greeting the day with curiosity means being interested in what each moment has to offer. And greeting it with wisdom means not turning away in aversion from our experience, even if it’s unpleasant and even if it’s not what we had hoped for."

- Toni Bernhard

"You don’t have to get through until morning. You only have to get through the present moment."

- Vidyamala Burch

"You might tell yourself: Just this moment or Just these few moments. Or you might set a short limit: Just these next 10 breaths, being with sensations. Then, if it’s still tolerable, move on to the next 10 breaths, and so on."

- Tara Brach

"When painful sensations arise and we can simply meet them with clarity and presence, we can see that pain is just pain. We can listen to pain’s message and respond appropriately—taking good care."

- Tara Brach

"I am not the weather. I am the wide and open sky."

- Josie George

"I am not the weather. I am the wide and open sky, and so I can let pain move through me and out of me."

- Josie George

"You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather."

- Pema Chödrön

"When we trust that we are the ocean, we are not afraid of the waves. We have confidence that whatever arises is workable. We don’t have to lose our life in preparation. We don’t have to defend against what’s next. We are free to live fully with what is here, and to respond wisely"

- Sayadaw U. Pandita

"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

- Robert M. Pirsig

"When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart."

- Dan May

""The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.""

- Robert M. Pirsig

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Remember, concentrate on the moment. Feel, don't think, use your instincts."

- Qui-Gon Jinn

"Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with."

- Sharon Salzberg

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen."

"Sometimes I think I shouldn’t feel the way I do. When I start thinking this way I tell myself that feelings are neither good nor bad—they simply are. In the midst of intense negative feelings, whether fear, anger, depression, etc., it can feel as though they will last forever, like they will never end. It promotes emotional balance to maintain an awareness that all feelings are temporary and that they always change."

"Learn to sit back and observe, not everything needs a reaction."

"தேவைப்படும் பொழுது நீ தேடப்படுவாய். அதுவரை அமைதியாய் இரு."

"Let your morning thoughts be bright, for they set the tone of your day."

- Unknown