Quotes About Mindfulness

Divine Mind (man's own superconscious mind)

and worry are twins and are the same thing. If

The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself. When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.

She denied loss, taking the affirmation: "I deny loss, there is no loss in Divine Mind, therefore I cannot lose that pencil. I will receive it or its equivalent.

We can learn to control our thoughts in the same way, by gentle determination, not force. We take an affirmation and repeat it continually, while our thoughts are on the rampage. We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body, and poison the atmosphere of the individual.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

There are, however, other kinds of meditation. One of them is known as active meditation. In this form of meditation, one relaxes the body and enters

W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Take only what you need, not what you want.

Therefore, it is necessary to guard our heart and our external senses from indecent spectacles: each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.

Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints…

Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.

You are out of the world's chatter, its corridor echoes, its muttering. Walking: it hits you at first like an immense breathing in the ears. You feel the silence as if it were a great fresh wind blowing away clouds.

You lift your head, you're on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That's it, that's all, and you're there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.

You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second.

Caminando, solo una hazaña importa: la intensidad del cielo, la belleza de los paisajes. Andar no es un deporte.

suele decir que caminar te «vacía la mente». Al contrario: andar te llena el espíritu de una consistencia distinta. No la de las ideas o las doctrinas, no en el sentido de una cabeza atiborrada de frases, citas y teorías, sino llena de la presencia del mundo. Esa presencia, al andar, se ha ido depositando en el alma a lo largo de todo el día,

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

True wisdom would be the ability to live without this scenery, to be the same person even at the bottom of a well. But that, it has to be said, is not so easy.

There's no point in looking before crossing the road if you don't look in the right direction.