Quotes About Mindfulness

Your mind need not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.

Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, "Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about." If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it.

By consciously getting your body into a certain posture, you can also elevate your consciousness, you can change the very way you feel, think, understand, and experience life simply by sitting in a particular way.

So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception.

True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression, only when you are joyful and peaceful, and quiet within yourself.

Someone is not stressful because of what he is doing; someone is stressful because he doesn't know how to manage his own inner system. It is not the nature of the job which makes one stressful. You ask the top executive, he is stressful; you ask the office hand, he is also stressful. Everybody believes their job is stressful. No job is stressful. If you have no control over your own inner system, you will be stressful whether you do something or you don't do anything.

Someone is not stressful because of what he is doing; someone is stressful because he doesn't know how to manage his own inner system. It is not the nature of the job which makes one stressful. You ask the top executive, he is stressful; you ask the office hand, he is also stressful. Everybody believes their job is stressful. No job is stressful. If you have no control over your own inner system, you will be stressful whether you do something or you don't do anything. Fundamentally

What does it mean to become a Buddha? "Bu" means "Buddhi," the intellect. One who is above his intellect is a Buddha.

Only when a person begins to experience a dimension beyond the physical within himself, then he can play with the physical world whichever way he wants, he can do the best that he can do in the outside world, but the interiority is undisturbed. If your body, if your mind, if your emotions, if your energies are not functioning the way you want them to, then this is the worst kind of slavery, because somebody else decides what should happen within you.

If you can bring some quality to the last moment of transition from wakefulness to sleep, that quality will continue through sleep, always. That's exactly what will happen with death also. If at the final moment a certain quality is brought in, that quality will continue.

Anybody who does not know how to manage his own body, his own mind, his own emotion and his energies, if he is managing outside situations, he is only managing them by accident, not by intent the way he wants it. When you manage situations by accident, you exist as an accident. When you exist as an accident, you are a potential calamity. When you exist as a potential calamity, being anxious all the time becomes a natural part of life.

Sex in the body is fine. Money in the wallet is fine. It is only a problem when they enter your mind.

The quality of your life depends on how well you manage your body, your mind, your emotion, your situations, your home, your communities, nations, your life in general and the world.

La vida es muy corta como para ser aburrido. Lo principal es quedar bien contigo mismo.

le gustaba hacerlo despacio, tranquilo, consciente de que la velocidad correcta y el ritmo apropiado eran elementos cruciales para el arte y la felicidad:

Never kick a cow turd on a hot day. Harry Truman said that. Words to live by.

Every moment is an experience.

We live and breathe, aware, or unaware this is what we do. The breath that we breathe in and out is our one source of life. To live and function as a human being. Breathing to live, and living to breathe is our sole lifeline until our last breath. We should take nothing for granted. And appreciate every breath we breathe in and out to live on Mother Earth."

It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing that you care for the best, and that is your leisure - the leisure you have to think; the leisure you have to be let alone; the leisure you have to throw the plummet into your mind, and sound the depth and dive for things below.

Be calm.  Do your breathing exercises.  You'll never be able to rule the universe if you can't control your own heartbeat.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.