Quotes About Mindfulness

Not only is this workaholism unnecessary, it's stupid.

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while first. By all means, have as many great ideas as you can. Get excited about them. Just don't act in the heat of the moment. Write them down and park them for a few days. Then, evaluate their actual priority with a calm mind.

Which features you choose to include or omit have a lot to do with less software too. Don't be afraid to say no to feature requests that are hard to do. Unless they're absolutely essential, save time/effort/confusion by leaving them out. Slow down too. Don't take action on an idea for a week and see if it still seems like a great idea after the initial buzz wears off. The extra marinading time will often help your brain come up with an easier solution.

Working more doesn't mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more. Workaholics

You need less than you think

Slow down and think. Panic doesn't solve problems; it just creates new ones.

Pope's favorite phrase is, "You need to be present to win,

We find what we seek and pay attention to

Together, all four now subscribed to a set of teachings that boiled down to "the law of nonresistance," as they described it—fundamentally, making the best of the current moment.

My body wasn't something to be starved or cut or filled with booze until I blacked out; it was something to be taken care of.

Pleasure demands presence. It invites you to inhabit your body more fully; no part of you is held at remote.

Restoring what has broken is a reminder to be careful with that is here now.

After observing O Sensei, the founder of Aikido, sparring with an accomplished fighter, a young student said to the master, "You never lose your balance. What is your secret?" "You are wrong," O Sensei replied. "I am constantly losing my balance. My skill lies in my ability to regain it.

Living in the answer, while forgetting the question that gave birth to it, will cause the answer to become mechanical, habitual, or dispirited. Conversely, living only in the question can lead to confusing or debilitating uncertainty and ambiguity. We need both.

Cómo alcanzaré la vida eterna?" "Ya es la vida eterna. Entra en el presente". "Pero si ya estoy en el presente… o no?". "No" "¿Por qué no?" "´Porque no has renunciado al pasado". "Y ¿por qué iba a renunciar a mi pasado? No todo el pasado es malo…" "No hay que renunciar al pasado porque sea malo, sino porque está muerto". Anthony de Mello.

Fluir significa aceptar que nadie más que uno mismo es el responsable de lo que nos pasa, aceptar que lo que acontece es siempre un reflejo de nosotros mismos y una oportunidad para crecer. Crecer significa acercarse a lo que verdaderamente somos y esto es la totalidad en la que todo lo que sucede acontece dentro. En esta condición no existe lo externo sino solamente uno mismo.

Mientras más perfecto sea el instrumento en su pureza, es decir, mientras menos filtros interfieran en su trabajo, la Realidad se percibirá como es: un proceso carente de azar.

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Taking things for granted is a good way to get yourself killed. – Scourge

Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid