In today’s fast-paced world, finding moments of calm and clarity can be a powerful tool for improving well-being. Mindfulness offers a way to stay present, reduce stress, and cultivate a deeper connection with yourself and your surroundings. To inspire and guide you on this journey, we’ve gathered a curated collection of the top 139 mindfulness quotes that encourage reflection, peace, and awareness. Whether you’re new to mindfulness or seeking fresh motivation, these quotes are sure to uplift and center your mind.
1. “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
2. “I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.” - Marilynne Robinson
3. “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” - Marcus Aurelius
4. “True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.” - Henry James
5. “...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)” - Donald Rothberg
6. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” - Thich Nhat Hang
7. “As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.” - Jack Kornfield
8. “Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.” - Bo Lozoff
9. “A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.” - Sheri S. Tepper
10. “Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz” - James Baraz
11. “There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient” - Marilynne Robinson
12. “You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn
13. “One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.” - Alan Wilson Watts
14. “Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” - Amit Ray
15. “The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.” - Pema Chodron
16. “In the end, just three things matter:How well we have livedHow well we have lovedHow well we have learned to let go” - Jack Kornfield
17. “Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.” - Sharon Salzberg
18. “We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.” - Sharon Salzberg
19. “We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.” - Sharon Salzberg
20. “Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.” - Nyanaponika Thera
21. “Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.” - Daniel J. Siegel
22. “Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan” - Carlos Castaneda
23. “Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.” - Allan Lokos
24. “Powiedz mi, co mam zrobić, żeby osiągnąć taką mądrość?" Mędrzec patrzy na niego i powiada: "Siadaj." Uczeń siada obok niego i powtarza swoje. "No, powiedz mi, rebe, to co ja mam robić?" Rabin milczy i nie rusza się z zydelka. Siedzą kilka minut w milczeniu. Wreszcie uczeń nie wytrzymuje i pyta "Rebe, czy ja coś źle robię?" Rabin patrzy na niego i odpowiada: "Kiedy ty siedzisz, to siedź. Kiedy ty idziesz, to idź. Ja, kiedy siedzę, to siedzę, a ty już wstałeś i dokądś pędzisz. Ja, kiedy idę, to idę, a ty, kiedy idziesz, to już doszedłeś.” - Krzysztof Mazurek
25. “The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.” - Dante Alighieri
26. “One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.” - Allan Lokos
27. “Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.” - Allan Lokos
28. “Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.” - Allan Lokos
29. “Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.” - Mary Rose O'Reilley
30. “How heron comesIt is a negligence of the mindnot to notice how at duskheron comes to the pond andstands there in his death robes, perfectservant of the system, hungry, his eyesfull of attention, his wingspure light” - Mary Oliver
31. “Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.” - Catherynne M. Valente
32. “You cannot control the results, only your actions.” - Allan Lokos
33. “One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.” - Allan Lokos
34. “Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way and you just never noticed. You are also no crazier than everybody else around you. The only real difference is that you have confronted the situation they have not.” - Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
35. “With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.” - Sharon Salzberg
36. “To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.” - Sharon Salzberg
37. “Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.” - Sharon Salzberg
38. “The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.” - Allan Lokos
39. “One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.” - Allan Lokos
40. “Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.” - Allan Lokos
41. “Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.” - Allan Lokos
42. “People in the midst of losing their patience are certainly experiencing as aspect of dukkha.” - Allan Lokos
43. “Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.” - Allan Lokos
44. “All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others” - Sharon Salzberg
45. “By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.” - Sharon Salzberg
46. “To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.” - Sharon Salzberg
47. “Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves. We can open to everything with the healing force of love. When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains, we feel neither betrayed by pain or overcome by it, and thus we can contact that which is undamaged within us regardless of the situation. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be.” - Sharon Salzberg
48. “Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.” - Sharon Salzberg
49. “When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.” - Sharon Salzberg
50. “Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.” - Sharon Salzberg
51. “Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.” - Allan Lokos
52. “So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.” - Allan Lokos
53. “We cannot force the development of mindfulness.” - Allan Lokos
54. “The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.” - Allan Lokos
55. “To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.” - Allan Lokos
56. “You actions are your only true belongings.” - Allan Lokos
57. “The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.” - Allan Lokos
58. “Patience has all the time it needs.” - Allan Lokos
59. “It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.” - Orna Ross
60. “We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and plan for these "conditions of happiness" we want to have in the future; and we continually chase after that future, even while we sleep. We may have fears about the future because we don't know how it's going to turn out, and these worries and anxieties keep us from enjoying being here now.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
61. “If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don't need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder, and you don't need to stress this planet by purchasing more and more stuff. The Earth belongs to our children. We have already borrowed too much from it, from them; and the way things have been going, we're not sure we'll be able to give it back to them in decent shape. And who are our children, actually? They are us, because they are our own continuation. So we've been shortchanging our own selves. Much of our modern way of life is permeated by mindless overborrowing. The more we borrow, the more we loser. That's why it's critical that we wake up and see we don't need to do that anymore. What's already available in the here and now is plenty for us to be nourished, to be happy. Only that kind of insight will get us, each one of us, to stop engaging in the compulsive, self-sabotaging behaviors of our species. We need a collective awakening. One Buddha is not enough. All of us have to become Buddhas in order for our planet to have a chance. Fortunately, we have the power to wake up, to touch enlightenment from moment to moment, in our very own ordinary and, yes, busy lives. So let's start right now. Peace is your every breath.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
62. “Without energy being invested in resisting the unwanted or dueling with fears, we have more energy and attention available for noticing not only the disturbing, but the wonderful...When we are not fixated on threat and defending ourselves, when we're not exhausted and burned out from chronic stress, we are able to see the daily evidence that we are in the midst of a mind-blowing miracle called Life....Then we will experience breathtaking, heart-rippling moments that counterbalance every trial and tribulation. When we're fully conscious of the universe's artistry and generosity, who needs psychodelics or Prozac?” - Charlette Mikulka
63. “When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.” - Stephen Richards
64. “Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.” - Sharon Salzberg
65. “Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.” - Sharon Salzberg
66. “Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.” - Sharon Salzberg
67. “A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.” - Eric Schmidt
68. “A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.” - Allan Lokos
69. “Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on—information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.” - Mark Williams
70. “We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.” - Allan Lokos
71. “Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.” - Sharon Salzberg
72. “Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.” - Allan Lokos
73. “Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.” - Deepak Chopra
74. “Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.” - Sylvia Boorstein
75. “Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” - Mother Teresa
76. “We have a right to decide how we want our bodies to look and feel, but unfortunately we do not exercise these rights. Instead, we tend to drift along, victims of our own ignorance of the fact that we can have what we want, if we are willing to take that first step toward developing the self-discipline to govern our thoughts.” - Holly Mosier
77. “Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- time, but you’ll soon find that you are a much nicer, more present, more productive person in each instance you do choose to say yes.” - Holly Mosier
78. “Respond; don't react.Listen; don't talk.Think; don't assume.” - Raji Lukkoor
79. “True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.” - Tsoknyi Rinpoche
80. “Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.” - Sharon Salzberg
81. “Let the breath lead the way.” - Sharon Salzberg
82. “Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.” - Sharon Salzberg
83. “Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” - Pema Chodron
84. “Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.” - Pema Chodron
85. “The best sex takes place in the mind first” - Jenna Jameson
86. “Let go of your mind and then be mindful.Close your ears and listen!” - Rumi
87. “A close examination of the instructions in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta reveals that the meditator is never instructed to interfere actively with what happens in the mind. If a mental hindrance arises, for example, the task of satipaṭṭhāna contemplation is to know that the hindrance is present, to know what has led to its arising, and to know what will lead to its disappearance. A more active intervention is no longer the domain of satipaṭṭhāna, but belongs rather to the province of right effort (sammā vāyāma).The need to distinguish clearly between a first stage of observation and a second stage of taking action is, according to the Buddha, an essential feature of his way of teaching. The simple reason for this approach is that only the preliminary step of calmly assessing a situation without immediately reacting enables one to undertake the appropriate action.” - Anālayo
88. “Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.” - Deepak Chopra
89. “Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.” - Doug Dillon
90. “We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.” - Doug Dillon
91. “Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
92. “How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.” - Marcus Aurelius
93. “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.” - Marcus Aurelius
94. “Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
95. “Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.” - Jack Gantos
96. “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.” - Robin Sharma
97. “Mindfulness allows you to face the past with courage, whether it is scarred with pain or caressed with joy, and it gently holds you in the safe haven of the present without allowing you to become overwhelmed with what may or may not be waiting in the future.” - Deborah A. Beasley
98. “I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive.” - Ray Bradbury
99. “I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.” - Tawni O'Dell
100. “Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought?No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one.” - John Steinbeck
101. “Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.” - Amit Ray
102. “The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.” - Kelly McGonigal
103. “Unfortunately, nothing can protect you from the thoughts in your own head.” - Katerina Stoykova Klemer
104. “...mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.” - Will Schwalbe
105. “Full minds create chaos.” - David W. Jones
106. “Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.” - George MacDonald
107. “If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.” - Pema Chodron
108. “The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
109. “How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.” - Peter Heller
110. “In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
111. “There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
112. “For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn
113. “Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
114. “We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
115. “You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
116. “In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!” - Ken Kesey
117. “Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations (66).” - Thich Nhat Hanh
118. “Sometimes we don't need to eat or drink as much as we do, but it has become a kind of addiction. We feel so lonely. Loneliness is one of the afflictions of modern life. It is similar to the Third and Fourth Precpets--we feel lonely, so we engage in conversation, or even in a sexual relationship, hoping that the feeling of loneliness will go away. Drinking and eating can also be the result of loneliness. You want to drink or overeat in order to forget your loneliness, but what you eat may bring toxins into your body. When you are lonely, you open the refrigerator, watch TV, read magazines or novels, or pick up the telephone to talk. But unmindful consumption always makes things worse (68).” - Thich Nhat Hanh
119. “I vow to ingest only items that preserve well-being, peace, and joy in my body and my consciousness... Practicing a diet is the essence of this precept. Wars and bombs are the products of our consciousness individually and collectively. Our collective consciousness has so much violence, fear, craving, and hatred in it, it can manifest in wars and bombs. The bombs are the product of our fear... Removing the bombs is not enough. Even if we could transport all the bombs to a distant planet, we would still not be safe, because the roots of the wars and the bombs are still intact in our collective consciousness. Transforming the toxins in our collective consciousness is the true way to uproot war (72-73).” - Thich Nhat Hanh
120. “I would like to ofer some exercises that can help us use the Five Precepts to cultivate and strengthen mindfulness. It is best to choose one of these exercises and work with it meticulously for a week. Then examine the results and choose another for a subsequent week. These practices can help us understand and find ways to work with each precept. 1. Refrain from killing: reverence for life. Undertake for one week to purposefully bring no harm in thought, word, or deed to any living creature. Particularly, become aware of any living beings in your world (people, animals, even plants) whom you ignore, and cultivate a sense of care and reverence for them too.2. Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.3. Refraining from sexual misconduct: conscious sexuality. Undertake for one week to observe meticulously how often sexual feelings arise in your consciousness. Each time, note what particular mind states you find associated with them such as love, tension, compulsion, caring, loneliness, desire for communication, greed, pleasure, agression, and so forth.4. Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).5. Refraining from intoxicants to the point of heedlessness. Undertake for one week or one month to refrain from all intoxicants and addictive substances (such as wine, marijuana, even cigarettes and/or caffeine if you wish). Observe the impulses to use these, and become aware of what is going on in the heart and mind at the time of those impulses (88-89).” - Jack Kornfield
121. “On the topic of exercise, "It's just as important as brushing your teeth everyday, more important than watching TV or reading online or answering email. Make time for something so crucial to a good life.” - Leo Babauta
122. “Even if you can’t be totally mindful at every meal, if you can say a blessing, silently if necessary, or offer up a prayer for someone, something beyond yourself and your food, the prayer helps to transform eating into something that affects not only our hunger at that moment but the greater world.” - Mary DeTurris Poust
123. “By becoming aware of God’s Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals—and by extension our hearts—with a sense of awe, a depth of prayer that cannot help but transform our mindless eating into moving meditations.” - Mary DeTurris Poust
124. “Food and eating often mask our pain, our inner longing for God, for acceptance. It is key to know our motivation for eating as well as for other actions. Why do I eat? Am I tired, am I bored, am I stressed and tired? A good practice is to live in the present moment, aware of the reality in which I am immersed.” - Mary DeTurris Poust
125. “When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of holiness, a sense of wholeness, to what we do and who we are. Like the Eucharistic feast that nourishes our heart and soul, every meal we eat with mindfulness[,] each bite we take with gratitude, has the power to transform us inside and out, for all time.” - Mary DeTurris Poust
126. “We can’t go from zero to sixty in a day or even a week when it comes to shifting our food-habit gears. We have to take baby steps, starting with an increasing awareness of our habits and a willingness to chip away at the ones that aren’t doing us any good. Slowly, with time and commitment, we move away from the rat-race, multitasking mentality to a place where we want to give our meals and ourselves the time and attention we deserve.” - Mary DeTurris Poust
127. “How we prepare our food, how we consume our food really makes a difference in how our food satisfies us and shapes the role we give food in our lives. Is it something we stuff in to satisfy an urge or something we savor to feed us physically and sustain us spiritually?” - Mary DeTurris Poust
128. “not every breakfast needs to be something worthy of posting to a food blog. Sometimes food is simply fuel, something we eat to live. But with TV ads and billboards and in-store displays saying otherwise—in colorful and provocative ways—that can be a hard case to make.” - Mary DeTurris Poust
129. “Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation; now it’s all about consumption and calories.” - Mary DeTurris Poust
130. “Whether we are feasting or fasting or somewhere in between, food should have a sacred role in our lives. It can be something we sacrifice, something we savor, something we share, and through it all we can remain fulfilled because we are grounded in God, the only One who can satisfy our hungry hearts.” - Mary DeTurris Poust
131. “I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.” - C.S. Lewis
132. “In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and squirm and our minds go far away. This can be so uncomfortable that we feel’s it’s impossible to stay. Yet this feeling can teach us not just about ourselves but what it is to be human…we really don’t want to stay with the nakedness of our present experience. It goes against the grain to stay present. These are the times when only gentleness and a sense of humor can give us the strength to settle down…so whenever we wander off, we gently encourage ourselves to “stay” and settle down. Are we experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What’s for lunch? Stay! I can’t stand this another minute! Stay!” - Pema Chodron
133. “Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.” - Ruth Ozeki
134. “Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death.” - Bryant McGill
135. “Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.” - Sally Jo Martine
136. “Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.” - Patti Digh
137. “We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream” - Cynthia Sue Larson
138. “[Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.” - Larry Dossey
139. “What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.” - S. Kelley Harrell
