Quotes About Mindfulness

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it's a good space.

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

I like a quickie as much as the next person, but I think that there's an awful lot to be gained from slow sex — from slowing down in the bedroom. You tap into those deeper psychological, emotional, spiritual currents, and you get a better orgasm with the buildup. You can get more bang for your buck, let's say.

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.

The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.

Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate

Those who look outside, dream; those who look inside, awaken.

In the original form of the word, to worry someone else was to harass, strangle, or choke them. Likewise, to worry oneself is a form of self-harassment. To give it less of a role in our lives, we must understand what it really it is.

So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.

1) When you feel fear, listen. 2) When you don't feel fear, don't manufacture it. 3) If you find yourself creating worry, explore and discover why.

There are many ways to be a spontaneous free spirit. One of them is to act before you think: Throw your body into the moment and let your mind catch up. With practice, your body and your mind will fly through the air together and you will learn to live in the present tense.

Having your head in the clouds, even for just a few minutes each day, is good for your mind, good for your body, and good for your soul.

Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.

Wherever I go, may I learn and love as much as I can in every moment. Wherever I am, may I be open to inspiration and truth.

If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can.

For every in-breath there is an out-breath, and as these two currents meet in the nose, a fine microclimate is set up.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. —BUDDHA

May I be mindful both making and keeping commitments that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering, for all sentient beings.

Usually when I feel like there's no time, it really means I haven't made time for myself.

let go of expectations, for expectations lead to suffering.

The art of getting beyond our Upper Limit Problem has a lot to do with creating space within us to feel and appreciate natural good feelings.

the Upper Limit Problem cannot be solved in the usual way we solve problems: by gathering information or replacing one set of information with another. The Upper Limit Problem must be dis-solved, not solved. You dissolve it by shining a laserlike beam of awareness on its underpinnings—the false foundations that hold the Upper Limit Problem in place. When you shine the light of awareness on the underpinnings, they disappear.

When you stop complaining about time, you cease perpetuating the destructive myth that time is the persecutor and you are its victim. I found