Quotes About Mindfulness

Will power is the only tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

No se recuerdan los días, se recuerdan los momentos

BaÅŸkalar?yla -hatta kar??na ç?kan tek insanla- sanki her ÅŸey o an baÅŸlayacak ve biraz sonra bitecekmiÅŸ gibi yaÅŸamal?s?n.

Bir ÅŸeyden, onu görmezlikten gelerek deÄŸil, ancak onu yaÅŸayarak kurtulabiliriz.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

According to the Buddhist tradition, the spiritual path is the process of cutting through our confusion, of uncovering the awakened state of mind. When the awakened state of mind is crowded in by ego and its attendant paranoia, it takes on the character of an underlying instinct. So it is not a matter of building up the awakened state of mind, but rather of burning out the confusions which obstruct it. In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment.

The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.

Eventually we must give up trying to be something special.

True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear, but going beyond fear.

We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our "self-improvement.

Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

when we appreciate reality, it can actually work on us.

Sacredness is not trying to look on the bright side of life and using that as a stepping-stone, but it is unconditional cheerfulness that has no other side.

You are the best company for yourself.

The practice of meditation is to see the transparency of this shield. But we cannot immediately start dealing with the basic ignorance itself; that would be like trying to push a wall down all at once. If we want to take this wall down, we must take it down brick by brick; we start with immediately available material, a stepping-stone. So the practice of meditation starts with the emotions and thoughts, particularly with the thought process.

There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.

So the problem begins in a very simple way. When body and mind are unsynchronized, you feel like a caricature of yourself, almost like a primordial idiot or a clown. In that situation, it is very difficult to relate to the rest of the world. That

But meditation is a life's work. You cease to sit and meditate in this life when the last breath runs out of your body on your deathbed.

A sense of knowing, or seeing, always happens. If you are willing to acknowledge its existence, there is the potential of being wakeful, open, and precisely there constantly. This is not based on being a sharp person, a smart person, or a very careful person. Rather, it is about being a person who can actually be—by yourself, very simply.

The practice of meditation is not so much concerned with the hypothetical attainment of enlightenment, but with leading a good life. In order to learn how to lead a good life, a spotless life, you need continual awareness that relates with life constantly, directly, and very simply.

The sitting practice of meditation is regarded as one of the most profound and fundamental disciplines you could ever achieve. By doing this practice, you find that you become less crazy. You begin to develop more humor, more relaxation, and ultimately, more mindfulness.

Usually our feelings of being exploited and other complaints of that nature are merely the squealing of ego and nothing more.

It is important to see that the main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego.

When we speak of "ignorance" we do not mean stupidity at all. In a sense, ignorance is very intelligent, but it is a completely two-way intelligence. That is to say, one purely reacts to one's projections rather than just seeing what is. There is no situation of "letting be" at all, because one is ignoring what one is all the time. That is the basic definition of ignorance.