Quotes About Mindfulness

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

Saying of the Prophet The Tongue A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower'.

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

Hay muchas personas caminando por las calles que en realidad están muertas; hay muchas en sus tumbas que están en realidad vivas.

Dicho del Profeta La lengua Un hombre resbala más con su lengua que con sus pies.

Es necesaria una preparación muy cuidadosa antes de que la gente pueda percibir algo que está allí todo el tiempo.