Quotes About Mindfulness

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

understanding the nature of things just as they are. Why? Because: So you should view all of the fleeting worlds: A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

A healthy mind is a peaceful mind. A peaceful mind comes through wisdom, not only knowing the truth but experiencing it. From

Recreation becomes a means to re-create one's consciousness at every moment instead of a means to forget oneself and to pass the time.

I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road.

When we devote all of our actions to a spiritual goal, everything that we do becomes a prayer.

I moved a part of my bed a little distance away from the domain of fear and desire.

[M]editation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

When there is great pain, there are only three rules: not to push the pain away, not to try to understand it, and not to indulge in it...Make yourself as open as a young tree caught in a storm. Let the storm bend you at its will, do not resist it, do not argue with it either- how could one argue with the wind and the rain?- and never ever feel sorry for yourself.

You asked me whether I was afraid, but to be afraid or sad doesn't mean one is making a mistake. it just means one is not listening carefully enough.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life.

Beware the ire of the calm.

Abstaining from anger and sex is like popcorn in the oven, thoughts quickly cook.

Awareness is laughing gas.

Laughter is an orgasm of awareness.

The less testosterone, the more you enjoy being alone.

Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.

It is said that the ignorant are obstructed by ignorance, while the intellectuals are obstructed by intellectual knowledge. One way of getting past these obstacles and approaching inherent knowledge is to let go of whatever comes to mind.

All worries and troubles have gone from my breast and I play joyfully far from the world. For a person of Zen, no limits exist. The blue sky must feel ashamed to be so small." Muso Soseki

All yogis are automatically the candidates initiated into the art of secrecy. Simply, because silence is the only main basis for attaining mental and spiritual powers.