Quotes About Mindfulness

learn to disidentify from your mind.

Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are.

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, gran parte de él es también perjudicial.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.

But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.

Most of the so-called bad things that happen in people's lives are due to unconsciousness. They are self-created, or rather ego-created.

Before you were the thoughts, emotions, and reactions; now you are the awareness, the conscious Presence that witnesses those states.

Surrender does not transform what is, at least not directly. Surrender transforms you. When you are transformed, your whole world is transformed, because the world is only a reflection. We spoke about this earlier.

Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.

Your primary purpose is now to enable consciousness to flow into what you do.

People with heavy pain-bodies usually have a better chance to awaken spiritually than those with a relatively light one.

Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion.

Some people may feel, as I did, that they cannot live with themselves anymore. Inner peace then becomes their first priority.

Feel yourself becoming transparent, as it were, without the solidity of a material body. Now allow the noise, or whatever causes a negative reaction, to pass right through you. It is no longer hitting a solid "wall" inside you.

A veces, simplemente, basta con cambiar la manera de hacerlo. El «cómo» siempre es más importante que el «qué». Trata de conceder mucha más atención a lo que haces que al resultado que esperas obtener. Centra toda tu atención en lo que el momento te ofrezca.

ROMPE LA VIEJA ESTRUCTURA de resistencia al momento presente, de negación del presente. Convierte en práctica el hecho de retirar la atención que prestas al pasado y al futuro cuando no sean necesarios.

How can we drop negativity, as you suggest? By dropping it. How do you drop a piece of hot coal that you are holding in your hand?

First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over.

Todos los artistas verdaderos, lo sepan o no, crean desde un lugar de no-mente, de quietud interior. La mente entonces da forma a la visión o impulso creativo. Incluso los grandes científicos han dicho que sus grandes logros creativos llegaron en un momento de quietud mental.

liberation. But you cannot

El propósito externo pertenece a la dimensión horizontal del espacio y el tiempo; el propósito interno concierne a una profundización de su Ser en la dimensión vertical del Ahora sin tiempo.

Glimpses of love and joy or brief moments of deep peace are possible whenever a gap occurs in the stream of thought. For most people, such gaps happen rarely and only accidentally, in moments when the mind is rendered "speechless," sometimes triggered by great beauty, extreme physical exertion, or even great danger. Suddenly, there is inner stillness. And within that stillness there is a subtle but intense joy, there is love, there is peace.

If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.