Quotes About Mindfulness

The reason why God has given us a thinking faculty, is that we may think on his Name. When our thoughts run out in vain things, we should think with ourselves thus: Did God give us this talent to misemploy? Did he give us thoughts that we should think of everything but him?

Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world:

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.

That's the trouble with thoughtlessness; it never remembers other people.

Who scorns the simple things of life 

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate

Does anybody realize what life is while they're living it- every, every minute?

Do human beings ever realize life while they live it ?-every, every minute?

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?

You not only live it; but you watch yourself living

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate.

Conservai sempre a vossa mente nas estrelas, mas deixai os vossos olhos verem os vossos passos para não cairdes na lama, por causa da vossa contemplação de cima. Lembrai-vos do paradoxo divino, que ao mesmo tempo que o Universo não existe, ele existe. Lembrai-vos sempre dos dois Pólos da Verdade: o Absoluto e o Relativo. Tomai cuidado com as Meias-Verdades.

The Master does this consciously, and by the use of his Will, and attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on the part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum.

It doesn't matter, sister. Too much thinking is bad for health. Now come on, let us sell a few more carrots and brinjals. This is who we are, not poets or philosophers.

She thought of the self-help books preaching the importance of gratitude that millions of Americans bought each year. How many of them could muster gratitude for a cup of tea?

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

We're responsible. We have control. The clear nature of our mind is always there, waiting to be revealed when the clouds of the disturbing attitudes are dispelled. This is our human beauty; this is our potential.

Thubten Chodron

The disturbing attitudes and negative emotions, such as clinging attachment, anger, and ignorance are the real source of our unhappiness.

Vesak Day, May 31, 2007

serenity (shamatha)

Cuando te encuentres solo, observa tu mente. Cuando estés con gente, observa tu habla.