Quotes About Mindfulness

Aly affirmait souvent - à moi, aux parlementaires locaux, à ses collègues, aux abonnés de son blog, à qui voulait l'entendre - que si une masse critique de gens, si modeste soit-elle, retrouvait la conscience du lien qui nous unit, l'économie deviendrait écologie.

You can travel everywhere, just by standing still.

listen to what other people called silence

You have a right to be present. A right to attend. A right to be astonished.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now. This is a monumental change from the first half of life, so much so that it is almost the litmus test of whether you are in the second half of life at all.

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.

In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.

Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.

When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.

Know that things are okay as they are. This moment is as perfect as it can be. The saints called this the "sacrament of the present moment.

Once we begin to learn the contemplative mind, we realize it is almost the natural way of seeing—and we have unlearned it! It is quite natural, as we see in children before the age of six or seven when they start judging and analyzing and distinguishing things one from another.

The opposite of contemplation is not action, it is reaction.

When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting, pushing or pulling, you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic. You can take that as axiomatic: in most cases, you become a mirror image of both what you oppose and what you love (see Ephesians 5:14).

You eventually have to return there to get most ordinary jobs done, but even those you will now do in a less compulsive or driven way.

If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis

We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness

You cannot know anything spiritually by saying it is a not-that : you can only know it by meeting it in its precise and irreplaceable thisness and honoring it there.

How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

The ability to stand back and calmly observe my inner dramas, without rushing to judgment, is foundational for spiritual seeing.