Quotes About Mindfulness

The most powerful spiritual practice is to hang out with the people who criticize you. You don't even have to do that physically, since they live right here in your head.

That's like saying, "May my will be done, not God's will," rather than realizing, deeply, that God's will is your will at every moment. It's trying to get what you want, rather than wanting what you have, which is the only way you can ever be happy.

When you think that people should be kind to you, the reverse is true: You should be kind to them and to yourself

I cannot need what I don't have, so I always have everything I need, and everyone does.

We're usually aware of the feeling before the thought.

Nothing external can disturb us. We suffer only when we want things to be different from what they are.

As I often say, if you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100 percent of the time.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. Baruch Spinoza

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered," Katie says, "but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional.

cuando alguien me decía algo que era verdad, me daba cuenta de ello porque me ponía a la defensiva de inmediato

El sufrimiento es una alarma natural que nos alerta de que nos estamos apegando a un pensamiento; cuando no escuchamos, llegamos a aceptar ese sufrimiento como una parte inevitable de la vida, pero no lo es.

La realidad es siempre más amable que las historias que contamos sobre ella.

You can argue with the way things are. You'll lose, but only 100% of the time.

referente a la realidad, no hay ningún «debería ser». Sólo hay lo que es, de la manera que es y en este mismo momento. La verdad es anterior a cualquier historia. Y cualquier historia, antes de la investigación, nos impide ver lo que es verdad.

Whose business are my children? Their business! When we're mentally out of our children's business, we have a shot at happiness, and so do they, because finally there's an example in the house.

All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.

If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk. Try not to degrade it by dragging it along, taking it around and exposing it so often to the daily silliness of social events and parties, until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.

If you cannot fashion your life as you would like, endeavour to do this at least, as much as you can: do not trivialize it through too much contact with the world, through too much activity and chatter. Do not trivialize your life by parading it, running around and displaying it in the daily stupidity of cliques and gatherings until it becomes like a tiresome guest. (As Much As You Can)

our feelings are signals that can provide us with the information we need to take care of ourselves appropriately

She believed in the principle of enoughness. from About Alice

Transcendental Meditation

THE ONE-MINUTE BREATH A variation of the Retained Breath is the One-Minute Breath, in which you take only one breath during one minute. Most people will find this difficult at first, and should work up to it by taking three breaths per minute, and then three breaths over two minutes. As a rule, people usually take about twelve to fourteen breaths per minute.

1. Sit erect in a comfortable position, with your chest, neck, and head vertically aligned. Place your hands on your lap, and hold your shoulders slightly back. 2. Inhale a Complete Breath during 6 beats of your heart. (Take your pulse before beginning the exercise, to get a feel for the length of 6 heartbeats.) 3. Retain the breath for 3 heartbeats, and exhale it during 6 heartbeats. 4. Pause for 3 heartbeats between breaths.