Quotes About Mindfulness

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day.

People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

The redefined M.D. is able to access the still, small voice that says I'm about to make a mistake - or I've just made one and I need to undo it before it's too late.

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

I have received a great deal of benefit from the simple yet difficult practice of learning to stop the internal voice in my head. I learned that the voice isn't me, and I don't need to keep rethinking events of the past nor overthink plans for the future. This skill has helped me both to focus and to pause before responding to unexpected events.

Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires. We can't force or expect things to change as fast as we want, but when we put our efforts in the direction of our intention and drop everything else like snow falling, things unfold with ease.

I am not a five-year-plan type. I tend to put one foot in front of the other and to allow things to unfold.

Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

The light of the spirit has to come into your attention.

The attention is to be kept pure.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.

In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.