Quotes About Mindfulness

One way of getting is not looking, one way of having is not asking...

At this moment" is a rare thing because only sometimes do I step with both feet on the land of the present; usually one foot slides toward the past, the other slides toward the future. And I end up with nothing.

Entonces se defendía de la muerte viviendo menos, gastando poco de su vida para que no se le acabara.

She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself.

Que não se acorde quem está todo ausente, quem está absorto está sentindo o pesos das coisas.

In my interior I find the silence I seek.

Sometimes she didn't think. Sometimes a person sat there being. She didn't have to do. Being was already doing. You could be slowly or a bit fast.

La libertad en sí -como acto de percepción- no tiene forma. Y como el verdadero pensamiento se piensa a sí mismo, esa especie de pensamiento alcanza su objeto en el propio acto del pensar.

The danger of meditating is accidentally beginning to think , and thinking is no longer meditating, thinking leads to an objective. The least dangerous thing, in meditating, is "seeing," which dispenses with thinking words.

É preciso que eu não esqueça. pensei, que fui feliz, que estou feliz mais do que se pode ser. Mas esqueci, sempre esqueci.

Ça, si doux : ne pas fuir, mais aller.

I was really in the room.

Turn off the news, forget Facebook and Twitter. Don't read the paper. Let the world turn, and the seasons pass on their own. Then wake up in the middle of the night a year later and ask yourself if anything is amiss. If so, let go of more media. Let go of more light. Wake again and ask if anything is lacking. Repeat as necessary until you have remembered what it means to be a person, because this is the one thing everyone forgets.

We can't make the external world become peaceful; we can only become peace.

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape.

To see, we must forget the name of the things we are looking at

Por eso recomienda tanto la calma y la paciencia, en primer lugar consigo mismo. «Guardaos de las precipitaciones y de las inquietudes, porque no hay nada que nos estorbe más para caminar en la perfección» (Carta a Santa Chantal, 57, colec. Blaise).

La soledad es un estado interior que puede practicarse, incluso, estando con otra gente, cree.

Y a veces la gente demasiado sensible camina por una cornisa muy fina entre la realidad y sus pensamientos.

What we live before the light is turned off is what prevents the light from being turned off. 'The quotidian

Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever--you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her. You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary moment, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating seconds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus.

La crisis de la educación no es una crisis más entre las muchas crisis que tenemos, sino que la educación está en el centro del problema. El mundo está en una crisis profunda porque no tenemos una educación para la conciencia. Tenemos una educación que en cierto modo le está robando a la gente su conciencia, su tiempo y su vida

Dado que los efectos de las sustancias psicodélicas son tanto terapéuticos como espirituales, muchos de los que los han experimentado se han interesado en la meditación o en seguir un camino espiritual.

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.