Quotes About Mindfulness

El hombre ha renunciado al saber silencioso en favor del mundo de la razón. Cuanto más se aferra al mundo de la razón, más efímero es el propósito».

Permit the paradox of wanting the irritant to vanish and allowing it to be what it is. Look inward for it in your thoughts and allow yourself to feel it wherever it is and however it moves in your body.

There is only one moment in which you can experience anything, and that is now, yet a great deal of time is thrown away by dwelling on past or future experiences. Turning your now into total fulfillment is the touchstone of effective living, and virtually all self-defeating behaviors (erroneous zones) are efforts at living in a moment other than the current one.

Being content with what you have

can be your sanctuary at any time.

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

Decide that any and all unhappiness that you choose will never be the result of someone else, but rather that it will be the result of you and your own behavior. Remind yourself constantly that any externally caused unhappiness reinforces your own slavery, since it assumes that you have no control over yourself or them, but they have control over you.

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have. If you are in charge of your own emotions, you don't have to choose self-defeating reactions.

free your mind from its persistent nagging.

Begin a practice of joyfully engaging with the things you take for granted. There are comforts such as your home, garden, meals, clothes, family members, and friends that you experience every day without ever appreciating them.

return to the basics of a peaceful existence by choosing to live simply and placing less effort on needing to conquer anyone.

have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times?

The truth, as I see it, is that everything you think, say, and do is a choice—and you don't need to think, speak, or act as you've done for your entire life. When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses. Right now, while reading this book

The only way you deactivate this dormant force is by believing that you're separate from it.

The backdrop for virtually all neurosis is making others' behavior more significant than your own.

Begin to view your emotional life as independent of whatever anyone else does. This will free you from the chains of being hurt when others behave differently from the way you want them to.

Replace the sentence "It isn't fair" with "It's unfortunate," or "I'd prefer..." Thus, instead of insisting that the world be other than it is, you begin to accept reality—but not necessarily to approve of it.

Think of yourself as too significant to live with anxiety about the things you have to do. So, the next time you know you are uncomfortable with postponement anxiety, remember that people who love themselves don't hurt themselves that way.

Your supply will arrive if you require less and welcome all that shows up.

Introduce a soft, nonaction style to your life. Practice the way of nonaction, or performing without effort.

slow down your incessant demands for more

When you maintain a peaceful inner posture, even in the midst of chaos, you change your life.

Keep in mind that you have no responsibility to make others happy. Others make themselves happy. Thus, you may truly enjoy the company of another, but if you feel it is your mission to make them happy, then you are a dependent who will also feel gloom when the other person is down. Or even worse, you'll feel as though you let him down. You are responsible for your own emotions and so is everyone else. No one has control over your feelings, except you.

There's no such thing as difficulty when you live in the present moment, doing only what you can right now.