Quotes About Mindfulness

So, even though your symptoms, at times, may feel all encompassing and completely out of your control, your awareness inserts a new variable, and with it comes the potential for change.

Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go.

Energy follows attention. Wherever you place your attention, that is where the energy of the system will go. "Energy follows attention" means that we need to shift our attention from what we are trying to avoid to what we want to bring into reality.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

Tea should be taken in solitude...

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

You will never achieve or succeed in life higher than your attitude.

You must live every day as if it counts, which means to love all of it. Never let a single one go by without noting the color of the sky, the song of the bird, the face of the one you love best. And don't let yourself get talked out of the things you really care about, don't put off what you want to be.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate

A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience

It is as if the "eyes of the background" do the seeing in an impersonal act of perception.

Ah, my brother, you will never know the happiness of thinking nothing and doing nothing. This is the most delightful thing there is, next to sleep. So we were before birth, and so we shall be after death.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

Hasta que no hagas consciente lo que llevas en tu inconsciente, este último dirigirá tu vida y tú le llamarás destino

Quien mira hacia fuera, sueña. Quien mira hacia adentro, despierta

As a contemplative man I am an arrant realist, so that I am capable of desiring nothing from all the things that present themselves to me, and of wishing nothing added to them. I make no sort of distinction among objects beyond whether they interest me or not.42

The training consists: first of all in systematic exercises for eliminating critical attention, thus producing a vacuum in consciousness.

Até você se tornar consciente, o inconsciente irá dirigir sua vida e você vai chamá-lo de destino

become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Inspiration doesn't "strike." Inspiration is scheduled. It happens when you allow it the time and attention it deserves.

whenever there is a sunset in front of you, turn around and start shooting what's behind you.

Sometimes it's the simplest things we should most long for.

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