Quotes About Mindfulness

escala si quieres, pero recuerda que el coraje y la fuerza no son nada sin la prudencia, y que un descuido momentáneo puede destruir la felicidad de toda una vida. No hagas nada con precipitación; vigila cada paso que des, y, desde el principio, piensa en cuál puede ser el final.

You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

People that worry about where they think they're going next generally don't end up where they think they're going. I just worry about what I'm doing now and try to make it good. When you've got too much of a master plan, it's going to fail.

Live life as it was meant to be lived. Half asleep, preferably. [...] She preferred [...] to go to sleep at once, sleep now being one of the very few aspects of existence for which she felt any degree of enthusiasm [...]

They gathered not in anger but in celebration of their having found, as a generation, a gentler and more respectful way of being. A way, not incidentally, more in harmony with consuming.

Il primo minuto della giornata lavorativa ci ricorda tutti gli altri minuti di cui è fatto il giorno, e non è mai bene pensare ai minuti come entità singole.

It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work, I got there...

A person accustoms himself to what he is, after all, and if he's lucky he learns to hold in somewhat lower esteem all other ways of being, so as not to spend life envying them.

entered a kind of trance of not-herselfness.

Life hasn't signed a contract with you promising to give you everything you want. It just unfolds in its own mysterious and uncontrollable way. The more you stop resisting the way things are, the happier and more peaceful you'll be.

Happiness, Buddha once said, is actually quite simple: The secret is to want what you have and not want what you don't have. Simple

Beneath the one who is busy is one who is not busy.

En el centro de todas las verdaderas enseñanzas del dharma está la comprensión de que el sufrimiento y la insatisfacción se originan en la forma en que tu mente responde y reacciona a las circunstancias de la vida, no en los mismos hechos de la vida.

If you pay too much attention to time, in certain tedious moments, it slows down to punish you.

When I was a boy I used to love pizza, and whenever my father took me to the pizzeria I'd order two slices. And I'd sit and he'd watch me wolfing down the first slice with my eyes on the second. I wasn't even tasting that first slice. And one day my father said to me, Son, you need to learn that while you're eating the first slice of pizza, eat the first slice. Because right now you're eating the second slice before you've finished the first.

Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone!

Try to be one of the people," said Henry James, "on whom nothing is lost." As a writer I considered myself observant, but how much was lost on me! Birds may be everywhere, but they also—lucky for them—inhabit an alternate universe, invisible to most of us until we learn to look in a new way. And even after I had been shown them, aspects kept eluding me.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

The distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at all.

I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will

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