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Mindfulness Quotes by Henepola Gunaratana
- Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You…
- Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of…
- Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
More Mindfulness Quotes
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. — Nadia Boulanger
- If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. — Jim Carrey
- In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power… — Nhat Hanh
- Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is… — Dalai Lama
- The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen
- Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not… — Rajneesh
- We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life. — Jack Kornfield
- We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way. — Surya Das
- Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
- You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must… — Nhat Hanh
- Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another. — Jon Kabat-Zinn