Quotes About Mindfulness

el Ahora. Este es ciertamente precioso. Cuanto más se enfoque en el tiempo — pasado y futuro — más pierde el Ahora, lo más precioso que hay. ¿Por qué es lo más precioso? En primer lugar, porque es lo único. Es todo lo que hay.

Generally speaking, it is easier for a woman to feel and be in her body, so she is naturally closer to Being and potentially closer to enlightenment than a man.

See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.

Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

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 depth returns to your life.

Do you hear that dog barking in the distance? Or that car passing by? Listen carefully. Can you feel the presence of the Unmanifested in that? You can't? Look for it in the silence out of which the sounds come and into which they return. Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

As you grow up, you form a mental image of who you are, based on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the now. I am.

You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within.

La razón por la que a algunas personas les encanta embarcarse en actividades peligrosas, como el montañismo, las carreras de autos u otras, aunque puede que no sean conscientes de ello, es que los fuerzan a entrar en el Ahora, ese estado intensamente vívido que está libre del tiempo, libre de problemas, libre del pensamiento, libre del peso de la personalidad.

El reconocimiento y la aceptación de los hechos te permite cierta libertad respecto a ellos.

reading The Power of Now

The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception

all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.

If you can recognize, even occasionally, the thoughts that go through your mind as simply thoughts, if you can witness your own mental-emotional reactive patterns as they happen, then that dimension is already emerging in you as the awareness in which thoughts and emotions happen — the timeless inner space in which the content of your life unfolds.

El sufrimiento necesita del tiempo; no puede sobrevivir en el Ahora.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.

An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you, the ego as it thinks, speaks, and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state.

Whenever you are waiting, wherever it may be, use that time to feel the inner body. In this way, traffic jams and lines become very enjoyable. Instead of mentally projecting yourself away from the Now, go more deeply into the Now by going more deeply into the body.

When Being becomes conscious of itself — that's presence.

Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion. No relationship can thrive in that way, and that is why there is so much conflict in relationships. When the mind is running your life, conflict, strife, and problems are inevitable. Being in touch with your inner body creates a clear space of no-mind within which the relationship can flower.

Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

The emotion is the relative truth of your state of mind at that time. Watch the emotion. You are the watcher, not the emotion.

If you are able to stay alert and present at that time and watch whatever you feel within, rather than be taken over by it, it affords an opportunity for the most powerful spiritual practice, and a rapid transmutation of all past pain becomes possible.