Quotes About Mindfulness

she would like to spend as much time as possible in such a state of transcendence while she is still here on earth. That's all. That's what I call creative living.

Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.

Zen masters always say that you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

What have I not yet learned about the futility of worry?

Life, if you keep choosing it so hard, will drive you to death...allow contentment to come to you

you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This

I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile.

To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

Every time a diminishing thought arises, I repeat the vow I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

I will always be safe from the random hurricanes of outcome as long as I never forget where I rightfully live.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate.

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what your ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

But how should we find peace within ourselves?" I asked Ketut. "Meditation," he said. "Purpose of meditation is only happiness and peace—very easy. Today

This supreme lesson of karma (and also of Western psychology, by the way)-take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you screw everything up the next time.

Why was there never enough time?

The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment. It's something like the habit of my dear friend Susan, who-whenever she sees a beautiful place-exclaims in near panic, It's so beautiful here! I want to come back here someday! and it takes all my persuasive powers to try to convince her that she IS already here.

I would like never to travel again. I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent—and working at a pace so slow—that I would be able to hear myself living.

the Zen masters always say that you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business.

So I don't try to kill off my fear. I don't go to war against it. Instead, I make all that space for it. Heaps of space. Every single day. I'm making space for fear right this moment. I allow my fear to live and breathe and stretch out its legs comfortably. It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.

You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

Yoga is about self-mastery and the dedicated effort to haul your attention away from your endless brooding over the past and your nonstop worrying about the future so that you can seek, instead, a place of eternal presence from which you may regard yourself and your surroundings with poise. Only