Quotes About Mindfulness

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

se puede estar bebido de tantas formas como se puede estar sobrio.

Sólo cuenta el momento presente, joya a la que hay que mimar como un objeto único, irrepetible.

Stay relaxed; if you begin to get nervous take a few deep breaths slowly to relax yourself and then get back to work. 4) Read the directions slowly and carefully.

The irony is that if you're like most people, you allow everything and everyone, except you, to determine what you are feeling. Said differently, you allow external influences to dictate your emotions.

One of the best methods for developing a healthy character is to appreciate all that you presently have. Most people tend to focus on what they don't have rather than on the many gifts they actually possess. A healthy character comes from a sincere appreciation for all that you have today in pursuit of all that you want tomorrow.

Emotional Channeling Technique #2: Focus Management

Being around others who practice situational awareness at your level or above will always keep you safe.

Being observant of your surroundings & practicing situational awareness at all times is not being paranoid; it's being cautious.

Just because you've never been a victim doesn't mean you're safe. Don't get complacent. Stay Alert & Be Safe!

Presence is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture that places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power.

leave yourself open to accept things rather than anxiously searching for them. You

Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.