74 Grounding Quotes on Embracing the Present Moment and Practicing Mindfulness
Last updated on December 12th, 2023 at 04:54 pm
Living in the present moment offers immense value and brings numerous benefits to our lives. It enables us to fully experience and appreciate the here and now, free from the grip of stressful or distressing thoughts. By directing our focus to the present, we tap into a wellspring of energy and motivation, propelling us towards our goals with enthusiasm and vigor.
Every moment we embrace becomes a thread woven into the fabric of our personal journey, shaping the narrative of our lives. Through mindfulness, we seize the opportunities that unfold in the present and maximize their potential, constructing a purposeful and gratifying world for ourselves.
Ignite your journey of self-discovery with these empowering quotes and captions, that celebrate the power of mindfulness and the beauty of living in the present.
When you focus on the good, the good gets better. – Abraham Hicks
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow
Focus on opportunities not setbacks. Focus on what you can do, not what you can’t. Focus on the present moment, not the past or the future. Empower yourself!” ― Akiroq Brost
Your life requires your mindful presence in order to live it. Be here now. ― Akiroq Brost
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size. – Albert Einstein
Visualize your highest self and start showing up as him/her. – Ali Owens
We cannot force the development of mindfulness. – Allen Lokos
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. – Amit Ray
Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. – Amit Ray
Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words, and actions. – Amit Ray
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. Including you. – Anne Lamott
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks, and plays in freedom. – Arnaud Desjardins
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. – Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax. – Bryant McGill
What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. – Buddha
All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.- Byron Katie
Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being. – Chögyam Trungpa
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. — Deepak Chopra
When you want to succeed, as much as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. – Eric Thomas
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand melting like a snowflake. – Francis Bacon Sr.
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open. – Frank Zappa
Mindfulness can help people of any age that’s because we become what we think. — Goldie Hawn
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse
The mind is just like a muscle– the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets, and the more it can expand. – Idowu Koyenikan
If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too. – Ivan Nuru
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves. – Jack Kornfield
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. – Jack Kornfield
Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you– in your body, heart, and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment. – Jan Chozen Bays
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. – Lao Tzu
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. – Lauren Kate
Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know this is the moment you most need to relax. – Matt Haig
This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before. – Maya Angelou
Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is happening; it’s about what is really going on. – Nell Newman
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather. – Pema Chodron
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. – Pema Chödrön
The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear. – Prasad Mahes
Mindfulness is a quality that’s always there. It’s an illusion that there’s a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you’re either mindful or you’re not. – Richard Gere
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness. – Sakyong Mipham
How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience, and therefore, the quality of our lives. – Sam Harris
Mindfulness isn’t difficult. We just need to remember to do it. – Sharon Salzberg
That’s life: starting over, one breath at a time. -Sharon Salzberg
Training your mind to be the present moment is the number one key to making healthier choices. – Susan Albers
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. – Sylvia Boorstein
Sweetheart, you are in pain. Relax. Take a breath. Let’s pay attention to what is happening; then we’ll figure out what to do. – Sylvia Boorstein
Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies. – Tara Brach
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. – Tara Brach
What would it be like if I could accept life – accept this moment – exactly as it is? – Tara Brach
Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation. – Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
In a world full of doing, doing, doing, it’s important to take a moment to just breathe, to just be. – Unknown
The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the self is reflected. – Vanda Scaravelli
Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour. – Walt Whitman
Let’s give ourselves right now. Tomorrow isn’t here yet.– Zoe Forward
Eckhart Tolle’s Quotes for Mindful Living
Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. – Eckhart Tolle
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now. – Eckhart Tolle
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. – Eckhart Tolle
The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor’s edge of Now. – Eckhart Tolle
Wherever you are, be there totally. – Eckhart Tolle
You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now. – Eckhart Tolle
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Wisdom on Mindfulness
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.-Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness… – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Thich Nhat Hạnh’s Mindfulness Quotes
Feelings come and go like cloudys in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. – Thích Nhất Hạnh
Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive. – Thích Nhất Hạnh
Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. – Thích Nhất Hạnh
The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness. – Thích Nhất Hạnh
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. – Thích Nhất Hạnh
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. – Thích Nhất Hạnh