Quotes About Mindfulness

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, LUXURY -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, and self-pitying is enormous. In time and money lost. In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental anguish. In sabotaging others' happiness. In foolishly frittering away potential joy during the one life—yes, the one life—you'll probably ever have.

en situaciones emocionales, antes de decir cualquier cosa, pide un momento para pensar.

awareness is itself a solvent. Simply allowing a thought, idea, anxiety or compulsion to rest within the field of awareness will dissolve that thought, idea and so on.

When I am silent it seems that nothing is happening, but everything is happening. Nothing ever stops happening. Everything is happening. To see into this is a way of melting down this carapace, this shell, of what we call existence.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Tras el vivir y el soñar, está lo que más importa: despertar. ANTONIO MACHADO

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly. And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

What does this think about that? Nothing thinks about anything. Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants? If it did, it would be people. . . Why am I worrying about this? If I think about these things, I'll stop seeing trees and plants And stop seeing the Earth For only seeing my thoughts... I'll get unhappy and stay in the dark. And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.

Let's only care about the place where we are. There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there's someone beyond the curve in the road, Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road, That's what the road is to them.

Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing. I know they smell just as well as I know I existed. They're things known from the outside. But now I know with my breathing from the back of my head.

Lightly, lightly, very lightly, A wind passes very lightly And goes away, always very lightly. And I don't know what I think And I don't want to know.

It's not enough to open the window To see the fields and the river. It's also not enough to not be blind To see the trees and the flowers. It's also necessary to not have any philosophy at all. With philosophy there are no trees, there are only ideas. There's only each of us, like a wine-cellar. There's only a shut window and the world outside it; And a dream of what you could see if you opened the window, Which is never what you see when you open the window.

The main thing is knowing how to see, To know how to see without thinking, To know how to see when you see, And not think when you see Or see when you think.

Há metafísica bastante em não pensar em nada.