Quotes About Mindfulness

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence...And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives

We get so wrapped up in numbers in our society. The most important thing is that we are able to be one-to-one, you and I with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with, that's what's important.

if we can allow ourselves to be gentle with ourselves no matter what our feelings may be, we have the chance of discovering the very deep roots of who we are.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

Sin embargo, olvidas dos cosas: a fuerza de no hacer nada, se acaba por no hacer nada.

Our goal is to learn how to resist temptation, but desperate attempts at iron willpower can produce frustration and disappointment. What's needed is watchfulness—in Greek, nepsis. Since temptation begins with a thought, we need to start noticing the thoughts that appear in our minds, that weave around and through, seeking a weak spot. The idea is to notice them early, and shut them off. Block them before they get stronger and harder to resist.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Satori (enlightenment) is described as nothing seeing itself as such.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

I'm so busy listening to the heart that I don't even hear when somebody asks me to pass the salt.

Better the foot slip than the tongue.

peace isn't just where there is no noise, no trouble, no hard work. Peace is when you can be in the midst of all those things and still be calm.

You are a guest of nature - behave.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a religion!

De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites

Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day.