Quotes About Mindfulness

nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of "consecrated action.

There is nothing wrong with psychoanalysis or finding out about your past as long as you don't confuse knowing about yourself with knowing yourself.

When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness.

en su aliado, no en su enemigo. Esto transformará su vida milagrosamente.

Anything unconscious dissolves when you shine the light of consciousness on it.

grievance is a strong negative emotion connected to an event in the sometimes distant past that is being kept alive by compulsive thinking, by retelling the story in the head or out loud of "what someone did to me" or "what someone did to us." A grievance

Many people still live like that, like sleepwalkers, trapped in old dysfunctional mind-sets that continuously re-create the same nightmarish reality

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

When you look and listen in this way, you may become aware of a subtle and at first perhaps hardly noticeable sense of calm. Some people feel it as a stillness in the background. Others call it peace. When consciousness is no longer totally absorbed by thinking, some of it remains in its formless, unconditioned, original state. This is inner space.

Buddha taught that the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

We can never understand this higher order through thinking about it because whatever we think about is content;

Your thinking, the content of your mind, is of course conditioned by the past: your upbringing, culture, family background, and so on. The central core of all your mind activity consists of certain repetitive and persistent thoughts, emotions, and reactive patterns that you identify with most strongly.

You cannot understand it through thought, but you can sense it when you let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

If you resist what happens, you are at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.

Es imposible formarse una imagen mental del Ser, y nadie puede pretender su posesión exclusiva.

change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

Basically, all emotions are modifications of one primordial, undifferentiated emotion that has its origin in the loss of awareness of who you are beyond name and form.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

What you usually refer to when you say "I" is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought of "I" in your mind and whatever the "I" has identified with.