Quotes About Mindfulness

Dondequiera que esté, esté plena-mente allí. Si encuentra su aquí y ahora intolerable y lo hace infeliz, tiene tres opciones: apártese de la situación, cámbiela o acéptela totalmente.

The ego says, 'I shouldn't have to suffer,' and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad.

If you cannot accept what is outside, then accept what is inside. If you cannot accept the external condition, accept the internal condition. This means: Do not resist the pain. Allow it to be there. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness, or whatever form the suffering takes. Witness it without labeling it mentally. Embrace it. Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace. This is your crucifixion. Let it become your resurrection and ascension.

You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future — nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him to find they still imagined he was there.

He pocketed his watch with a milder look, and began to turn about busily in the empty shell of his own mind. His universe was a brilliantly illuminated circle extending from himself at it's centre to the exact limit of his occupations and interests.

the stoic's carelessness of material things, combined with the epicurean's pleasure in them.

We are so used to "doing" that it may seem like a chore just to "be.

I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon

More and more, I think you should have no expectations and do everything for its own sake. That way you won't be hit in the head quite so frequently.

I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

I think if you have to think about anything very long, you've obviously done yourself an injury, as it were.

When we take life for granted, we're assholes. Every day we wake up and the world's still turning- that's a great day.

but there was no need. For at that

If we can't control our conscious responses, what chance do we have against the influences we haven't recognized?

Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly?

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too small if it's cherished

At this point, we know that worry and fear are more about us than about the things outside us. They

If you are casual about anger and unprepared, you will lose and so will those around you.

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns

As much as the heavens exceed the earth, so much larger is the field of spiritual meditation than that of all terrestrial concerns.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.