Quotes About Mindfulness

Spiritual growth is the only real growth

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself.

Don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems - so that they should not recur again.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily.

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself. He goes through the streets of a big city with all its traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time. That is the ideal of Karma-Yoga

the midst of intense activity finds himself in the

Take up anything that you see or feel, a book for instance; first concentrate the mind on it, then on the knowledge that is in the form of a book, and then on the Ego that sees the book, and so on. By that practice all the organs will be conquered.

The Yogi believes in psychic control and the conquest of internal nature. "How

It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify yourself, and the world is bound to be purified.

The world is neither good nor bad; the world is the world. The

even so the sage can draw all his sense-organs inside," (Ibid. 58.) and nothing can force them out.

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind.

What is meant, therefore, by this mortification? Holding the rein firmly while guiding the body and the organs; not letting them do anything they like, but keeping them both under proper control.