Quotes About Mindfulness

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.

Kehidupan yang tak dipikirkan adalah kehidupan yang tak pantas untuk dijalani

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La buena conciencia es la mejor almohada para dormir" (Sócrates)

On peut non seulement ce qu'on a, mais aussi ce que l'on est.

The more you know who you are and what you want, the less let things upset you

Western laziness.... consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time left to confront the real issues.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

The secret is not to "think" about thoughts, but to allow them to flow through the mind, while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.

Whatever you find yourself thinking, let that thought rise and settle, without any constraint. Don't grasp at it, feed it, or indulge it; don't cling to it and don't try to solidify it. Neither follow thoughts nor invite them; be like the ocean looking at its own waves, or the sky gazing down on the clouds that pass through it.

OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM

Sometimes even when the cell door is flung open, the prisoner chooses not to escape.

Don't get too excited. In the end, it's neither good nor bad.

The purpose of reflecting on death is to make a real change in the depths of your heart, and to come to learn how to avoid the "hole in the sidewalk," and how to "walk down another street.

Now when the bardo of this life is dawning upon me, I will abandon laziness for which life has no time, Enter, undistracted, the path of listening and hearing, reflection and contemplation, and meditation, Making perceptions and mind the path, and realize the "three kayas": the enlightened mind;4 Now that I have once attained a human body, There is no time on the path for the mind to wander.

I shall never forget when Dudjom Rinpoche, in a moment of intimacy, leaned toward me and said in his soft, hoarse, slightly high-pitched voice: "You know, don't you, that actually all these things around us go away, just go away . . ." With

Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructive view of permanence, from the false passion for security on which we have built everything.

You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

life is inherently sacred and must be lived with sacred intensity and purpose

Buddha said: "Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain." Similarly he said: "Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.

There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; my philosophy is kindness.

Of all footprints That of the elephant is supreme; Of all mindfulness meditations That on death is supreme.7

A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion. More

Thomas Merton wrote: "What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.