Quotes About Mindfulness

Laughter is tranquilizer without side effects.

When you stop to smell roses, be careful not to inhale bee.

When you interact with someone repeatedly over time, it changes you. That's why what you watch on TV or read or see in magazines is so critical. So watch what you watch. Be careful with whom or what you are interacting. These recurrent interactions change your cells. They change your soul. They change your countenance.

To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

This unconditional wakefulness is described in the Sanskrit term bodhicitta

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any & all thought states.

REAL BUT NOT TRUE

With a loving mind, cherish more than a child The hostile gods and demons of apparent existence, And tenderly surround yourself with them. — Machig Labdrön (1055–1145)

What we call demons are not materially existing individuals with huge black forms, frightening and terrifying anyone who sees them. A demon means anything which hinders liberation.

Hold it lightly.

to record the five steps in as much detail as you can, along with whatever thoughts, associations, or memories are triggered by the demon.

the dragon is not slain or even fought against, but drawn out and fearlessly nurtured

At first a yogi feels his mind Is tumbling like a waterfall; In midcourse, like the Ganges, It flows on slow and gentle; In the end, it is a great Vast ocean, where the lights Of child and mother merge in one. — The Song of Tilopa (988–1069)

I really think I'd be better at, like, advanced napping techniques.

THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS.

Not thinking sounded pretty appealing right now.

Keep your mouth shut and don't get in the way." "As if I would!" Fatespeaker said happily, immediately tripping Starflight with her tail.

Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.

Always we should appreciate what we are able to do, and not feel bad about what we haven't done.