Quotes About Mindfulness

Si quieres controlar tu vida, tienes que controlar tu mente. En lugar de intentar controlar todo lo demás, céntrate en eso. Olvídate de todo lo demás. Porque, si no aprendes a dominar tu pensamiento, nunca vas a levantar cabeza».

you clear out all that space in your mind that you're using right now to obsess about this guy, you'll have a vacuum there, an open spot—a doorway. And guess what the universe will do with that doorway? It will rush in—God will rush in—and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed. So stop using David to block that door. Let it go.

The other day in prayer I said to God, "Look—I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

sometimes you count the days, sometimes you weigh them.

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

Not merely alive, but outfitted with a mind that was functioning at the uppermost limits of its capacity—a mind that was seeing everything, and understanding everything, as though watching it all from the highest imaginable ridge.

Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents (eating the couch, digging a hole through the living room floor, biting the mailman, etc.). It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own peace of mind).

no vemos nuestro reflejo en el agua en movimiento, sino en el agua quieta.

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. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop

Maybe because they didn't worry too much about me, I didn't worry too much about me, either.

Do I have the right to experience pleasure and peace? If so, what would bring me pleasure and peace?

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day? Of

There's a reason the call God a presence ~ because God is right here , right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

The more lightly you can pass that time, the brighter your existence becomes.

There's a reason they call God a presence ~ because God is right here , right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Be very careful, warns this tale, not to get too obsessed with the repetition of religious ritual just for its own sake.

Even smile in your liver.

Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering. Then, let go.

Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

First, however you initially grasp the sword, change your grip a little, so that you focus on how you're holding it. Don't take your weapon for granted.

With effort, I brought my natural self-discipline to bear on each day, and each day calmed me further.

Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans—I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment

it forces concentration, and thus opens up the world.

it's important not to take offense unless offense is meant.