Quotes About Mindfulness

En este tiempo presente en que ahora vivo aquellos recuerdos, todas las mañanas son imprevisibles en su manera de ser distintas. Sin embargo, lo que es más distinto, el ánimo con que las vivo, la especial manera de sentir la vida de cada mañana, la luz diferente con que el sol da sobre las cosas, las formas diferentes de las nubes que pasan o se quedan, todo eso se me olvida. Únicamente quedan los objetos que me rodean y que sé que son los mismos.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

Never change your plans because of the weather, be Zen and go with the weather, let the weather reveal itself to you in all its variety and grandeur.

This is why one becomes a monk: to cultivate in every moment presence to the beauty of the world.

Uno sbaglio della natura. Perché così come abbiamo le palpebre per smettere di vedere quando non ne abbiamo voglia, dovremmo poter disporre di due saracinesche nel canale auditivo. Le chiudiamo e non dovremmo più sentire quello che non vogliamo sentire.

En silencio la realidad pesa menos.

La inconciencia o no conciencia es la condición sine qua non para la felicidad.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

If you don't have a date Celebrate Go out and sit on the lawn And do nothing 'Cause it's just what you must do Nobody does it anymore.

Regarding Girl Scout Camp survival skills: "For instance, if I see a snake, I should stand still or walk backwards slowly, never run. I am one hundred percent sure I will not do that. But now, while running as fast as I can, I will be thinking, I shouldn't be running.

There is reason to fear that men love better to investigate how muslins, hay-rakes, and, above all and inclusive of all, money may be made, than how their own minds are constructed

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.

It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story--if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell yourself that you are going to listen for the sound of your own voice--and remind yourself when you forget. And you will forget, over and over again.

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

I believe your trouble, which is a congestion, has come from having things stored away. Congestion of things causes congestion in the body.

When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.

Visualizing is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by intuition, or the superconscious mind.

Do this by repeating an affirmation: Stand still and see the power within me.

Your point of power is in the present.

When you can no longer be disturbed, all disturbance will disappear from the external. "When your eyes have seen your teachers, your teachers disappear.

No matter how much money you have, if you feel poor, you begin to lose money. Nothing comes into your life uninvited. You are always inviting poverty or prosperity through your quality of thought.

Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is fear or faith.