Quotes About Mindfulness

Yama, Niyama, Âsana, Prânâyâama, Pratyâhâra, Dhâranâ, Dhyâna, and Samâdhi are the eight limbs of Yoga.

the doctrine of non-attachment.

We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.

Misery comes through attachment, not through work.

Most of our difficulties in our daily lives come from being unable to hold our minds in this way. For instance, if a man does evil to us, instantly we want to react evil, and every reaction of evil shows that we are not able to hold the Chitta down; it comes out in waves towards the object, and we lose our power.

Breathing, posturing, etc. are no doubt helps in Yoga; but they are merely physical. The great preparations are mental. The first thing necessary is a quiet and peaceable life.

flying from work is never the way to find peace.

always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why

all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.

When he first began to abuse me, I thought, "I am going to be angry". Anger was one thing, and I was another; but when I became angry, I was anger. These feelings have to be controlled in the germ, the root, in their fine forms, before even we have become conscious that they are acting on us.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

they have no thought for anything else, never live a moment for any other idea

they have no thought for anything else, never live a moment for any other idea, and thus the way is shortened for them. This is what is meant by concentration, intensifying the power of assimilation, thus shortening the time. Raja-Yoga is the science which teaches us how to gain the power of concentration.

Falling away ... when obtained . Some days or weeks when you are practicing, the mind will be calm and easily concentrated, and you will find yourself progressing fast. All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall.

the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts.

Y ou must avoid excessive merriment A mind in that state never becomes calm it becomes fickle

T he happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more

We forget what missiles our words are, how much damage we can cause with one thoughtless comment between the coffee and the toast.