Quotes About Mindfulness

Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self.

The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring.

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That's the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue. But what else can anyone do, don Juan? Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That's the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue." But what else can anyone do, don Juan? Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.

If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift.

If a warrior is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

perceiving the world" entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular "perceiving" is done with our senses and with our will.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

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Que cada uno de tus actos sea tu última batalla sobre la tierra

Ljutiš li se na mene, don Huane?, upitah ga kada se vratio. Izgledao je iznena?en mojim pitanjem. Ne! Nikada se ni na koga ne ljutim. Niko na ovom svetu ne može da u?ini ništa toliko zna?ajno da bih se ja naljutio. Ljutiš se na ljude onda kada misliš da su njihovi postupci važni. Ja tako više ne mislim.

Bez obzira na to jesmo li ratnici, svi se mi s vremena na vrijeme suo?avamo s kubnim centimetrom mogu?nosti. Razlika izme?u prosje?nog ?ovjeka i ratnika jest u tome što je ratnik toga svjestan, ostaje svjestan i budno ?eka kako bi taj kubni centimetar uhvatio ?im se pojavi.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Although I could hear the echo of my footsteps, I could have sworn I was walking a few centimeters above the ground

Pasamos la mayor parte de nuestra vida soñando, sobre todo cuando estamos despiertos

If people stopped to consider even a quarter of what they say, this world would be paradise.

He'd lived his forty-seven years with enviable panache and intensity, maintaining that human beings foolishly allowed their existence to drift by as if they were going to live for ever: that was their undoing.

Mientras se trabaja, no no le mira a la vida a los ojos.

Cuando sólo se habla por hablar, poco se piensa y aún menos se hace.

When you say what you think, be sure to think what you say.