🧘 Mindfulness

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”

“The only constant in life is change.”

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.”

“The point of the spiritual path is not to avoid all pain. It is to learn how to deal with pain and difficult situations skillfully.”

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peace. This of course would be an attachment to stillness.”

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

“It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”

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

“Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

“The root of suffering is attachment.”

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”

“This above all; to thine own self be true.”

“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“Life is always right here, right now. It is not somewhere else.”

“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”

“All of humanitys problems stem from our inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

“The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

“The best revenge is massive success.”

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves.”

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“The whole path of mindfulness is this: whatever you are doing, be aware of it.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.”

“Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom.”

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

“The only thing constant in life is change.”

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

“The only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate.”

“Each moment is all being, is the whole world. Anything that exists is yourself.”

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

“God is dead.”

“The goal of meditation is not to control your thoughts, it is to stop letting them control you.”

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”