Quotes About Mindfulness

Like all buses, it comes when it comes. You can wait with frustations, angers or feeling of victimhoods or you can wait with patience and relaxation, either way, it won't make the bus come any way faster

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

Temptations are like dirty dishes.  There are some who leave them alone, scarcely noticing how many have piled up.  And there are some who must do them right away.

The neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks goes one further: If you're working on two completely separate projects, dedicate one desk or table or section of the house for each. Just stepping into a different space hits the reset

After you have prioritized and you start working, knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.

knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.

Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don't know it.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

you will discover that true presence brings you pleasure incommensurate with events. The most banal thing—a cup of tea, a few steps, opening a door, a glance at the sky—can be enough to make you happy during the time you are present and well after.

This inner gaze is devoid of all tension or strain: how could it belong to an intellect strained with effort?

When myriad experiences leave no trace, how great! To practice like this is liberation.

Someone who desires to be fully alive has to do nothing but observe without inner commentary the automatic mechanisms that stop him from tasting the tremoring vibration of life. This observation alone is the key to our liberation. It requires naked and silent awareness, detached from all objectives.

We cannot do a greater good to another human being than to accord him our naked awareness, devoid of all plan.

When little islands of presence cut into our moments of absence, we start to taste the difference in pleasure that presence brings us. When practice mixes with pleasure, we are not far from being definitively lost to the cause of automatism.

As is written in stanza 74 of the Vijnanabhairava Tantra: "Wherever you find satisfaction, the very essence of bliss will be revealed to you if you remain in this place without mental wavering.

What a practitioner of the Tantric path quickly feels, and sometimes the very first day, is that the benefit or reward—the state of joy, space, and freedom—is not subsequent to the practice of awareness. It is, on the contrary, an integral part of it.

You have the openness necessary to live this experience deeply.

at the heart of every person is an absolute and faultless realm that cannot be sullied or damaged by any action. All aggression takes place at the edges of this immaculate jewel.

Apprenticeship exists; it goes hand in hand with the development of a complete yoga of presence, which it is impossible to attain as long as you get fixed on objectives.

Where do people need to go so badly they can't realise what is already here, outside the car window

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.