Quotes About Mindfulness

Happiness is a skill, a manner of being, but skills must be learned. As the Persian proverb has it: "Patience turns the mulberry leaf into satin.

Que el precioso Pensamiento del Despertar nazca en mí, si no lo he concebido. Y que, cuando haya nacido, nunca decline, sino que siempre siga desarrollándose. Voto de Bodhisattva

Nos esforzamos mucho para mejorar las condiciones exteriores de nuestra existencia, pero, en resumidas cuentas, al que siempre le toca bregar con la experiencia del mundo es a nuestro espíritu, y lo traduce en forma de bienestar o de sufrimiento. Si transformamos nuestro modo de percibir las cosas, estamos transformando la calidad de nuestra vida. Y este cambio es el resultado de un entrenamiento del espíritu denominado «meditación».

Knowing the workings of the discursive mind, seeing how it maneuvers to dupe us, is no small deal. When I'm paralyzed by anxiety, I'm sometimes surprised that I find the joys and the quiet times of everyday life insipid. It's as though I missed the adrenaline that rushes through me when I am in crisis mode, which is quite dramatic. The blows of fate are crushing, exhausting, but at least in the moment of struggling with them I know why I get up in the morning.

N'importe qui peut se mettre en colère. C'est facile. Mais se mettre en colère avec la bonne personne, au bon degré, au bon moment, pour la bonne raison et de la bonne façon Ã¢â'¬â€œ cela n'est pas facile11.

le bouddhisme en appelle à une pratique de transformation personnelle pour que l'agent moral grandisse en sagesse, ce qui lui permet d'adopter une motivation plus altruiste et de bénéficier d'une clarté d'esprit accrue pour affiner son jugement.

Celui qui a pénétré le sens de la vie ne se donne plus de peine pour ce qui ne contribue pas à la vie.

In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all.

Le véritable renonçant est parfaitement sain d'esprit et bien informé de ce qui se passe autour de lui. Il ne fuit pas le monde parce qu'il est incapable de le gérer, mais se désintéresse des préoccupations futiles parce qu'il en voit les inconvénients.

Les conversations ordinaires sont des « échos d'échos », regrettait l'ermite Patrul Rinpoché. Il suffit d'allumer la télévision ou de se rendre à une soirée mondaine pour être englouti par un déluge de paroles qui non seulement sont inutiles mais exacerbent la convoitise, le ressentiment, la vanité...

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it. A

Si piensa que todo es perfecto en su vida, o bien es usted un buda, o bien es completamente idiota.

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

I'm perfectly capable of staying indoors at home for a week without going anywhere. I enjoy just existing. I don't think of Formula 1 for twenty-four hours a day.

Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

El dolor es inevitable, el sufrimiento es opcional.

In order to really see the world, we must break with our familiar acceptance of it.

Psychological reflection, however, obliges us to place the precise world back into its cradle of consciousness, to ask ourselves how the very idea of the precise world or of precise truth is possible, and to seek out its first springing forth into consciousness. (...) Consciousness must be brought face to face with its unreflective life in things and must awaken to its own, forgotten, history - this is the true role of philosophical reflection.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

To be conscious is, among other things, to be somewhere else.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.