Quotes About Mindfulness

Becoming aware of the beliefs behind the emotional wound frees you from this cycle of pain and hurt.

When things don't go as planned, simply asking, "Is it that important?" can be helpful. Answer this question from a place of being zoomed out: "Will this be important a year from now or several years from now? Will this be important on my deathbed?" Many of the things we get upset about wouldn't be important even moments or days later.

The more present we are to life, the more enjoyment we get out of life. The opposite is also true: The less present we are to life, the less enjoyment we get out of life.

You drop your mental baggage because you see that it offers nothing of value but only takes you away from the experience of the beautiful being that you are.

The ego lies in wait for the opportunity to list someone's supposed faults (according to the ego's conditioning). So it's never long before the judgments and reservations begin to flow.

Once enough people see the falseness of their thoughts and realize that their thoughts are the cause of their suffering, and once people realize the possibility of a better reality, consciousness can change quite rapidly.

Learning to be present to what is and stay present to that takes a lot of practice.

But the hero lets the future take care of itself, because he knows the future never actually arrives. In reality, all there ever is, is one moment moving naturally and gracefully into the next, with or without the mind's ceaseless thoughts.

Thoughts are conditioning, so when you believe your thoughts, you become the conditioned self and lose touch with your real self. As a result of the distance from thoughts developed by meditation, the real self comes back into the picture. The real you is what is aware of thoughts and of everything else. The ego can't be aware of thoughts because the ego is, in essence, itself a thought. The ego belongs to the conditioned self and has no awareness of its own.

If we believe our thoughts, then they define us and determine our experience of life, how we feel, and what we do. We are, in many respects, a puppet to our conditioning, to our thoughts and feelings—when we believe them. When we are identified with them and believe them, we are at the mercy of them. They run the show.

As soon as you see you are ego identified, you are outside of it and you have some choice—to either reidentify with the ego or not.

If loving something means giving it our attention (and it does), then most of us are in love with our thoughts. The irony is that this lover doesn't love us back but, instead, gives us a lot of negative messages and poor advice. In short, this lover makes us unhappy. What can explain our devotion to such a poor lover?

Language such as "good" and "bad" and "I like" and "I don't like" divides the world into what you want and don't want. Then when life shows up in a way you don't like, you suffer. By wanting life to look a certain way, you cause your own suffering. The hero has seen how such dualities and desires create suffering and how suffering wouldn't exist without them.

We were never meant to be anything other than the way we are right now. True perfection is life just as it is.

your attention to what is here, not to what isn't.

really involved in whatever you are doing. Experience it fully with all of your senses. Be in the experience of the present moment and not lost in your thoughts.

What happened in the past was what it was, and no amount of speculation can change that. This rumination about reality is just the mind's way of not accepting a former now and its way of taking you out of the current now.

I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

Per ogni uomo c'è un'area della vita compresa nel perimetro sacrosanto dei cazzi suoi.

L'unica cosa che ci fa differenti è che tu, quando hai finito di parlare con loro, hai la possibilità di sentirti stanco. Puoi andare a casa e spegnere la tua mente e ogni sua malattia.

Mientras se contempla la luna en el cielo se pierde la perla que tenemos en la mano», afirma el maestro Shoshan.

Siederemo accanto un'altra volta, a spinger sassi col piede, e fantasie col pensiero.

The only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently in the Now.