Quotes About Mindfulness

No puedo controlar las cosas que me suceden cada día, pero puedo controlar cómo pienso al respecto.

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

Judgment is not always required. You don't need to have an opinion on every issue.

As you breathe, say to yourself: Breathing in, I am aware of breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware of breathing out.

We can make a practice of letting go of unnecessary negative thoughts and feelings (our prayer word– a quick flight to the center, while the thought is allowed to float away– can be used to advantage in this) and cultivating joyful, positive ones. 132

Anxiety can alert us to the fact that we are no longer in the present moment. Anxiety robs us of our present moment experience and we experience it only as we focus on past events that caused us worry, and future events.

So for James, too, will derives not from the freedom to initiate thoughts, but to focus on and select some while stifling, blocking-or vetoing-others. For Buddhist mindfulness practice, it is the moment of restraint that allows mindful awareness to take hold and deepen. The essence of directed mental force is first to stop the grinding machine-like automaticity of the urge to act. Only then can the wisdom of the prefrontal cortex be actively engaged.

I want to find happiness in the tiniest of things - a minute moss plant, 2 cm across, on a rock - and I want to try to do what I've been wanting to do for so long, that is, to copy these infinitesimally small things as precisely as possible and to be aware of their size.

May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten.

Happiness comes not only from moment-to-moment enjoyment of life, but also from the sense of satisfaction and flow that arises when we are using our capacities to their fullest.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in that way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Emotional Alchemy, Tara Bennett-Goleman

Live life, because when you stop and look around, you see a wonderful world.

You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal.

En el libro La Enseñanza de Buda dice: "Aunque un hombre conquiste a miles de hombres en los campos de batalla, sólo aquel que se conquiste a sí mismo ganará su batalla".

Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

Lo único que la divinidad nos pide es que asumamos plena responsabilidad, pidamos perdón y cuidemos muy bien de nosotros mismos. ¡Eso es todo!

Life is an inside job and it is much easier if we let it go and get out of our own way!

El doctor Ihaleakalá siempre dice: «Un problema no es un problema, a menos que digamos que lo es, y el problema no es el problema. El problema es cómo reaccionamos al problema».

Cada vez que utilizamos cualquiera de sus herramientas, estamos tomando el 100% de la responsabilidad y pidiendo perdón (a nosotros mismos).

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

Unless we know the weight of our bodies, unless we feel the force of gravity, we'll forget what we are, we'll lose ourselves without even noticing.