Quotes About Mindfulness

Después, la gente venía ocasionalmente a mí y me decía: "Quiero lo que usted tiene. ¿Puede dármelo o mostrarme cómo lograrlo?" Y yo decía: "Usted ya lo tiene. Sólo que no puede sentirlo porque su mente hace demasiado ruido".

Si no fuera por el alcohol, los tranquilizantes, los antidepresivos así como las drogas ilegales, que son todos consumidos en grandes cantidades, la demencia de la mente humana sería aún mucho más evidente de lo que lo es ya.

el ochenta o noventa por ciento del pensamiento de la mayoría de las personas es, no sólo repetitivo e inútil, sino que por su naturaleza disfuncional y a menudo negativa

You need even more awareness to see it in yourself than to recognize it in another person.

For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance—little maketh up the best happiness. Be still."4

Only through awareness -- not through thinking -- can you differentiate between fact and opinion.

The more you are identified with your thinking, your likes and dislikes, judgments and interpretations, which is to say the less present you are as the watching consciousness, the stronger the emotional energy charge will be, whether you are aware of it or not. If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom.

would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it. Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

Non è insolito trascorrere l'intera vita aspettando di cominciare a vivere

The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it.

Siempre que se dé cuenta de que ha surgido alguna forma de negatividad en usted, mírela no como un fracaso sino como una señal útil que le dice: Despierta. Sal de la mente. Vive el presente

NO TE PREOCUPES POR EL FRUTO DE TUS ACCIONES: mantente atento a la acción misma. El fruto ya vendrá cuando corresponda.

because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.

Ni el éxito ni el fracaso pueden cambiar el estado de tu Ser interno.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind.

At times you may have to take practical steps to protect yourself from deeply unconscious people. This you can do without making them into enemies. Your greatest protection, however, is being conscious.

Cuando la conciencia se libera de su identificación con las formas físicas y mentales, se vuelve lo que podemos llamar conciencia pura o iluminada, o presencia.

Feel your whole body from within, as a single field of energy. It is almost as if you were listening or reading with your whole body. Let this be your practice in the days and weeks to come. Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing.

The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.

Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness.

Descartes, of course, the French philosopher said: I think therefore I am. If he had waited a little bit longer before saying anything, he could have come to the point of cessation of thinking and then he could have made the more profound statement: I am conscious therefore I am. Thinking is only an expression of consciousness: a surface expression of consciousness.

That is the joy of Being,' I said. 'You can only feel it when you get out of your head. Being must be felt. It can't be thought.