Quotes About Mindfulness

Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary

Aside from the fact that regular meditation can lead to profound insights and life-changing understanding, it also has its more mundane uses. It helps you to relax; it promotes good sleep, better concentration, and improved overall health.

Eastern styles of meditation do not require that you create mental stillness by blocking out your thoughts. Instead, they suggest that you observe your thought processes in a detached way.

Like our Eastern counterpart's, the goal of the Western style of meditation is that of bypassing the critical thinking mind and its processes. But instead of doing so with stillness, it accomplishes the same task with activity and imagery.

A guided imagery meditation is something like a controlled, planned dream through which someone else leads you.

Brian and Kara look a lot like us. Like them, we forget that it is in the little moments that spiritual battles are lost and won.

But he is asking us to own the connection between our thoughts, desires, and words.

Be reflective if you must be armed.

Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.

Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

Laugh Hard, Inhale Slowly, Think Often, Love Alway's!

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Don`t talk while you are anger, Don`t talk about new offering`s while you are happy

Friends, I have lost a day.

Ein Sadhu hat mir einmal etwas Interessantes gesagt. Ich weiss nicht, ob es stimmt, aber mir kam es sinnvoll vor. Er meinte, achtundneunzig von hundert Gedanken hat man schon mal gehabt. Auch die Gedanken wiederholen sich. Deshalb kann man sie genauso gut anhalten, also ganz zum Schweigen bringen. In der Stille findet man dann vielleicht einen oder zwei Gedanken, die wirklich neu sind.

Fermati ogni tanto. Fermati e lasciati prendere dal sentimento di meraviglia davanti al mondo

C'è un discorso che Gandhi fa nel 1909 in cui si guarda attorno e si chiede «Cos'è la vera civiltà? La civiltà nasce da un tipo di comportamento che indica all'uomo il sentiero del dovere [...], l'osservanza della moralità. Raggiungere la moralità significa raggiungere la padronanza della nostra mente e delle nostre passioni».

Una volta avevamo il tempo di cercare la pace. Oggi non più.

La cura delle cure non esiste. La sola cosa da fare è vivere il più coscientemente, il più naturalmente possibile, vivere in maniera semplice, mangiando poco e pulito, respirando bene, riducendo i propri bisogni, limitando al massimo i consumi e controllando i propri desideri. Purtroppo stiamo tutti diventando più ricchi e con ciò più stupidi e meno sani.

[W]e do not have such a clear mirror for our minds as we do for our bodies.

Growing and opening the inner life in order for us to more fully take in the world is an essential part of coming to our senses.

Go into everything thinking it may be temporary.

The best way to treat the watch, then, is to wear it.

How we choose to feed our minds is just as important as what we put into our bodies. At every moment of the day we are receiving impressions through sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.