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It a beautiful day to be mindful, isn’t it? I have been going through some wonderful quotes on mindfulness today and I just can’t wait to share some of those with you.

If you have been reading my posts then you know how I’m trying to incorporate mindful living in my day to day activities. To know what you have, be grateful for that and be conscious of everything you do, however insignificant, that is mindfulness to me. And I have been taking baby steps towards achieving that.

Today, when our lives are wrought with stress, anxiety, and hyper-connectivity, this simple concept of living in the present can actually help us a lot. I was a skeptic earlier. I often found myself asking if being mindful is just living in the present. How could we do that when being farsighted was also essential. I wasn’t convinced of the usefulness of being mindful.

But I have seen it work, gradually and slowly, over the past couple of weeks. Something as trivial as knowing that I need to keep aside my phone to be with my daughter, enjoy our moment together, that is mindfulness to me. Taking a walk while breathing in fresh air, even if for a few minutes, that is what being mindful is to me. And I have been doing that for a month or so. And I have to say that it has helped me a lot. Really.

So, today, I leave you with some beautiful quotes on mindfulness. Maybe one of these would be able to convince you to try it in your life too.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. — William James

 

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world. ― Arianna Huffington

 

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

 

Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it. ― Sharon Salzberg

 

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn’t like. ― Daniel J. Siegel

 

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

 

Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your point of power. ― Doug Dillon

 

Stop, breathe, look around and embrace the miracle of each day, the miracle of life. ― Jeffrey A. White

 

Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life. ― Waylon H. Lewis

 

Conscious breathing is a good way to nourish body and mind with mindfulness. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Go inside you, feel the silence, use the eternal now that rules the past and the future. ― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

 

When the momentum of mindfulness is well developed, it works like a boomerang; even if we want to distract ourselves, the mind naturally rebounds to a state of awareness. ― Joseph Goldstein

 

Mindfulness is a quiet mind, an aware mind. Mindfulness itself is not about ‘arriving,’ but about being. ― Jean Moreau

 

Mindfulness is awareness of everything that is happening in the moment of ‘Now’. Mindfulness is a self-development technique that will change the focus of our mind towards happiness. ― Natasa Pantovic Nuit

Are you being mindful today?