Quotes About Mindfulness

Making yourself right and others wrong is one of the principal egoic mind patterns, one of the main forms of unconsciousness.

I think" is just as false a statement as "I digest" or "I circulate my blood." Digestion happens, circulation happens, thinking happens.

Il viaggio esteriore può contenere milioni di passi, il viaggio interiore ne ha uno solo, il passo che compi adesso.

What the world doesn't tell you—because it doesn't know—is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful. Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. And what is that? There is a sense of quality in what you do, even the most simple action. Quality implies care and attention, which come with awareness. Quality requires your Presence.

You may think that you need more time to understand the past or become free of it, in other words, that the future will eventually free you of the past. This is a delusion. Only the present can free you of the past. More time cannot free you of time.

According to the Buddha, the human mind in its normal state generates dukkha, which can be translated as suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or just plain misery. He sees it as a characteristic of the human condition. Wherever you go, whatever you do, says the Buddha, you will encounter dukkha, and it will manifest in every situation sooner or later.

The moment you become aware of a negative state within yourself, it does not mean you have failed. It means that you have succeeded. Until that awareness happens, there is identification with inner states, and such identification is ego.

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

When you say "no" to a person or a situation, let it come not from reaction but from insight, from a clear realization of what is right or not right for you at that moment. Let it be a nonreactive "no," a high-quality "no," a "no" that is free of all negativity

Sólo cuando aparece el sonido el silencio empieza a ser.

you cannot cope with the future.

you can only be free now.

Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment — allow it to be as it is — then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

full attention means full acceptance.

Are you defending your right to be unconscious, your right to suffer? Don't worry. Nobody is going to take that away from you. Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep asserting that it is okay to be sick?

This is not to say that all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I.

So don't seek to become free of desire or "achieve" enlightenment. Become present. Be there as the observer of the mind. Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.

the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering — and free of the egoic mind.

Nur wenn du dich auf den gegenwärtigen Augenblick ausrichtest, gewinnst du Zugang zu dieser Kraft.

He vivido con varios maestros Zen, todos eran gatos

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. By

See the fullness of life all around you. The warmth of the sun on your skin, the display of magnificent flowers outside a florist's shop, biting into a succulent fruit, or getting soaked in an abundance of water falling from the sky. The fullness of life is there at every step.

La salvación no está en otro lugar en el tiempo o en el espacio. Está aquí y ahora.

Sei also dem Leben treu, indem du deinem inneren Ziel treu bleibst. Wenn du präsent bist und voll und ganz in dem aufgehst, was du tust, werden deine Taten mit spiritueller Kraft aufgeladen. Zuerst mag noch keine merkliche Veränderung zu erkennen sein in dem, was du tust – nur im Wie. Dein vorrangiges Ziel ist es jetzt, dafür zu sorgen, dass Bewusstsein in alles einfließen kann, was du tust.