Quotes About Mindfulness

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

Regardless of how long Daitsu Chisho Buddha sits, regardless of how long you sit, the Buddha dharma never appears because it is already here! Reveal it! Do not cover it up!

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

Completely forget about the mind and you will do all things well

Jei kas pastatyt? veidrod?, tai veidrodžio atspindžiai b?t? matomi. Nors veidrodis atspindi ir apie tai negalvodamas, jo atspindžiai vis tiek yra preciziškai tiksl?s. Savo mintis sud?damas lyg veidrod?, kovos men? žmogus taip pat nem?stys apie sprendimus, ta?iau priklausomai nuo jo min?i? veidrodžio ryškumo, sprendimas tarp teisingo ir neteisingo bus priimtas be jokios minties.

Life is too short to be in a hurry." If we are always on the go, we are reacting to the exigencies of day-to-day life rather than allowing ourselves the space to create a happy life.

Whatever you do, know that you always have choices about what to do with thoughts—including the ones that belong to someone else. In

Kids don't have to stop the thoughts. They simply need to change their relationship to their thoughts. The more your child can learn to trust themselves, and not their anxiety, the more they will be able to put the worry thoughts aside.

Even when throwing in the river, measure what you throw

When you let another steal your joy you give them power over you. Don't let anyone steal your smile

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

If you put your energy into how much a fall would hurt, you're already half way down.

Lixa sempre as expectativas das pessoas, companheiro. Faz bem à circulação.

It's occurred to him that he might have an undiscovered talent for letting things be.

Worrying had always seemed to me like a laughable waste of time and energy; so much simpler to go happily about your business and deal with the problem when it arose, if it did, which it mostly didn't.

I've lost count of how many times I've caught myself in the half-second before I splattered temper everywhere and stuck myself cleaning up the mess for the rest of my life.

It wasn't good for the soul, she reminded herself, to dwell in anger. Too oft it only hurt the bearer, because the receiver was scarce aware, or didn't care anyway.

Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out exactly how we feel, stop deciding what we want and just see what happens.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Emotional fixations are like that—if you see them clearly, unflinchingly, for what they really are, you take the power away from them. They no longer control you. Confusion dawns as clarity.