Quotes About Mindfulness

When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Lo que te hace seguir adelante es la esperanza, pero la esperanza hace que estés enfocado en el futuro, y ese enfoque permanente perpetúa tu negación del ahora y, por tanto, tu infelicidad.

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

Nesmíte zapomínat, že ego potÃ…â"¢ebuje problémy a nepÃ…â"¢átele, aby posílilo sv?j pocit odlou?enosti, na níž závisí jeho totožnost.

El único lugar donde puede ocurrir un verdadero cambio y donde puede ser disuelto el pasado es en el Ahora.

There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within.

the present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not "this moment.

All you really need to do is accept this moment fully.

the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy

Of course, you are not usually conscious of all your thought patterns, and it is often only through watching your emotions that you can bring them into awareness.

Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in the Now (see chapter 6).

Once you have disidentified with yourself whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all

With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between where you don't want to be (now) and where you want to be (the projected future). Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting, snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.

all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering, like a shadow that follows you wherever you go. Ultimately

plus on est à même de respecter et d'accepter le moment présent, plus on est libéré de la douleur, de la souffrance et du mental.

It's all there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away.

To complain is always nonacceptance to what *is*.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: You don't know what it is.

Of course, you are not usually conscious of all your thought patterns, and it is often only through watching your emotions that you can bring them into awareness. [...] 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.

As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence — your deeper self — behind or underneath the thought, as it were. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.

To create suffering without recognizing it -- this is the essence of unconscious living...