Top 200 Mindfulness Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.”

— Eckhart Tolle

152. “The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

— Eckhart Tolle

153. “One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

154. “Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

155. “The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong – just a sense of open heart and open mind.”

— Pema Chödrön

156. “Be present as the watcher of your mind – of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.”

— Eckhart Tolle

157. “Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

158. “In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.”

— Deepak Chopra

159. “If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

160. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Nhat Hanh

161. “We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

162. “One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.”

— Martin Buber

163. “Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

164. “Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.”

— Mooji

165. “The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

166. “Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.”

— Eckhart Tolle

167. “Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

168. “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

169. “Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.”

— Nhat Hanh

170. “True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.”

— Eckhart Tolle

171. “Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”

— Jack Kornfield

172. “Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.”

— Mary Davis

173. “Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.”

— Eckhart Tolle

174. “Observe the reality as it is. As it is, not as you wish it to be. Perhaps your breath is deep. Perhaps your breath is shallow. Perhaps you breathed in through the left nostril. Perhaps you breathed in through the right nostril. It makes no difference.”

— S. N. Goenka

175. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.”

— Buddha

176. “There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.”

— Nhat Hanh

177. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”

— Nhat Hanh

178. “It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”

— Eckhart Tolle

179. “Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower, or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

180. “Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

181. “All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

182. “Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

183. “You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.”

— Eckhart Tolle

184. “Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

185. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi

186. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan Watts

187. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

— Eckhart Tolle

188. “Know thyself.”

— Socrates

189. “The past has no power over the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

190. “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu

191. “An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”

— Goi Nasu

192. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

193. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

194. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”

— Anonymous

195. “The trouble is, you think you have time.”

— Buddha

196. “If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”

— Deepak Chopra

197. “If not now, when?”

— Eckhart Tolle

198. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

199. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

200. “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

— Dalai Lama XIV