Quotes About Mindfulness

happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. Only the illusion of time separates them.

This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.

Get out of your head and into the moment.

A situation needs to be either dealt with or accepted. Why make it into a problem?

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

Enthusiasm and the ego cannot coexist.

What freedom to realize the voice in my head is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who noticed this.

U prošlosti se nikada nije dogodilo ništa što bi vas moglo sprije?iti da sada ne budete prisutni. A ako vas prošlost ne može sprije?iti da sada budete prisutni, kakvu onda mo? uop?e posjeduje?

Stay present, stay conscious. Be the ever-alert guardian of your inner space. You need to be present enough to be able to watch the pain-body directly and feel its energy. It then cannot control your thinking. The moment your thinking is aligned with the energy field of the pain-body, you are identified with it and again feeding it with your thoughts.

Get in touch with the energy field of the inner body, be intensely present, disidentify from the mind, surrender to what is; these are all portals you can use — but you only need to use one.

Problem means that you are dwelling on a situation mentally without there being a true intention or possibility of taking action now and that you are unconsciously making it part of your sense of self. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing you can do now.

Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence.

The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else.

Try a little experiment. Close your eyes and say to yourself: "I wonder what my next thought is going to be." Then become very alert and wait for the next thought. Be like a cat watching a mouse hole. What thought is going to come out of the mouse hole?

To become free of the ego is not really a big job but a very small one. All you need to do is be aware of your thoughts and emotions -- as they happen. This is not really a 'doing,' but an alert 'seeing.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A

The other more serious reason for the illusion of separateness is compulsive thinking. It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

The ego's greatest enemy is the present moment, which is to say, life itself

The collective disease of humanity is that people are so engrossed in what happens, so hypnotized by the world of fluctuating forms, so absorbed in the content of their lives, they have forgotten the essence, that which is beyond content, beyond form, beyond thought. They are so consumed by time that they have forgotten eternity, which is their origin, their home, their destiny. Eternity is the living reality of who you are.

Then what is the relationship between something that you do and the state of joy? You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present, any activity that is not just a means to an end. It isn't the action you perform that you really enjoy, but the deep sense of aliveness that flows into

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire.-Eckhart Tolle

Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet.

You dissolve discord, heal pain, dispel unconsciousness — without doing anything — simply by being and holding that frequency of intense presence.