Quotes About Mindfulness

Tutkijoiden mukaan paras tapa laihtua ja olla lihomatta on tarkkailla itseään huolellisesti - pitämällä esimerkiksi ruokapäiväkirjaa ja punnitsemalla itsensä päivittäin. On myös todettu, että ihmisellä on enemmän tahdonvoimaa, kun hän ei täysin kiellä itseltään tiettyjä ruokia vaan päättää syödä niitä myöhemmin (kuten ilmeisesti viikonloppuna).

Jos on vain lakannut kiinnittämästä huomiota ja syönyt kakkua, tuntuu helpommalta antaa itselleen anteeksi ja syödä tiedostavasti taas seuraavalla aterialla.

Much of life consists of the dead time between events. Don't fill these interstitial moments with pornography and cat videos.

But it was only while lolling around the basement or backyard that you'd settle into the anesthetizing effects of boredom, and with that monotony, your brain would kick into action, attempting to compensate. You might notice the world around you, both the minute and the grand, at its natural pace, letting go of the need to relentlessly move on to the next new thing.

We are all late all the time even though we know the time better than ever before.

Tuning out no longer means spacing out; it means tuning in to something else.

You know when you're in yoga and you're looking around, thinking, Wow, I wish I were that flexible, or How come she can hold that pose? Well, my friend has a saying: "Stay on your own mat." Not physically, but mentally. In life, we're all made differently: our families, our frames, our personalities and talents. Appreciate how you were made, and stay on your mat. That's where happiness lies.

Everywhere and at all times, it is up to you to rejoice piously at what is occurring at the present moment, to conduct yourself with justice towards the people who are present here and now.4 Although

When, while, while when you walk.

Forse la percezione del mondo non dipende dai luoghi, ma dall'andatura. Se vai lento, ovunque tu sia nella fascia temperata del Globo, le tue notti si popoleranno di grilli, belati, fumo di legno, erbe aromatiche, stelle. D'inverno ti addormenterai circondato di luce lunare fredda, odore di lana infeltrita e letame, tè bollenti e sogni caldi, quelli dove le persone hanno odore e sapore. In una parola, la vita.

Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise...

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.

I try not to think about how easily I slipped through a crack in the floor. It's like, if you were walking down the street with your friends, and suddenly one of them slipped down an open manhole, you'd notice, wouldn't you? I certainly would! I mean . . . I think I would. I hope I would. Or maybe we're all so focused straight ahead, people slip away when we're not looking.

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.