Quotes About Mindfulness

It's a really simple formula: Your experience + Yoga = New Students.

Bebed té y no os desesperéis.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

De temps à autre, il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bonheur et d'être simplement heureux.

De las veinte decisiones que tomo cada día, dieciocho son intuitivas, a partir de la observación.

have a kink as solid and full of habit as the ones in the hose. Slowly I pull out the full length of the hose and lay it where it needs to be before I turn on the water. Inside, too, I must unroll my full attention. Old habits of thought twist themselves into kinks and knots. We will be forced to acknowledge this again and again.

You'll waste a lot less time worrying about what others think of you if only you realized how seldom they do.' To this we might add Albert Camus' wise words: 'To be happy one must not be too concerned with the opinion of others. One should pursue one's goals single-mindedly, with a quiet confidence, without thinking of others.

Yoga is not about self-improvement, it's about self-acceptance.

In our uniquely human capacity of connect movement with breath and spiritual meaning, yoga is born.

For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?

How simple is to be happy, how difficult to be simple

Be awake in all that you do! Do not think you are already awake. No: you are asleep and dreaming. Be firm, collect yourself, and briefly behold the sensation that runs through your body: "NOW I AM AWAKE!

Everybody could attain this if he had the key. The key consists simply in becoming aware of one's "form of the Self or of one's skin, even though one may be asleep, in discovering the narrow crack through which consciousness slips between waking and deep sleep.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

There are two races on earth. Those who need others, who are distracted, occupied and refreshed by others, who are worried, exhausted and unnerved by solitude as by the ascension of a terrible glacier or the crossing of a desert; and those, on the other hand, who are wearied, bored, embarrassed, utterly fatigued by others, while isolation calms them, and the detachment and imaginative activity of their minds bathes them in peace.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

The unattended mind lives with unending wants, while the awakened mind understands that its own watchfulness is the fullness it seeks.

Love is effortless attention.

Walk lightly through life.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Toute relation soumise à une pression, même si son but est d'essayer de raccommoder les choses, finit toujours par se disloquer. Nous pouvons apprendre à faire mieux qu'à nous laisser diriger par cet esprit du moi malavisé. Nous pouvons apprendre à nous distancer de ses manigances autodestructrices.