🧘 Mindfulness

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

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

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

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

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

“The best revenge is massive success.”

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

“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”

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

“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few.”

“God is dead.”

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

“The only thing constant in life is change.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

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

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

“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.”

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

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

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

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

“The only constant in life is change.”

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

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”

“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 root of suffering is attachment.”

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

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

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

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