Quotes About Mindfulness

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

Nunca habrá otra perfección que la de ahora. Canto a mí mismo, WALT WHITMAN

There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

On the direct path you constantly reinforce your purpose, which keeps the distractions at bay.

What makes it all possible is raising your awareness. What you aren't aware of you can't change.

Supongamos que el tema de hoy es la libertad. Entonces, hoy concentra tu atención en la palabra libertad.

A simple shift of attention is all you need.

As this life evaporated before his eyes, Siddhartha felt a shiver, as if someone had ripped off his winter coat and left him naked in the cold. But he wasn't naked, and far from dead. Instead of the mask of images and memories, surrounding him on every side was something pure and free: life itself. He couldn't remember who he was. There was nothing left of his fears and dreams, nothing to do, nothing to want. He was simply alive, the breath of the breath, the eye of the eye.

Upon Waking Let Your First Thought Be, "Thank You

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

Brooding on your negative traits isn't going to bring the shadow to light.

Look at the forest," Buddha replied. "We walk through it every day and believe it to be the same forest. But not a single leaf is the same as yesterday. Every particle of soil, every plant and animal, is constantly changing. You cannot be enlightened as the separate person you see yourself to be because that person has already disappeared, along with everything else from yesterday.

Who is content simply to be? You too have felt the peace of simply being. Wake up to that, and you will join me in being free.

A self check in is a way to know and manage awareness, attention and Intention.

There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is!

happiness is not a six-pack and a sport utility vehicle but what he calls "flow." It occurs "when a person's skills are fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just about manageable" (Csikszentmihalyi 1997, 30).

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Get out, but don't cause unneeded accidents.

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.

I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

I knew every raindrop by its name.

Everybody's got a mean side. Just don't feed it till it grows.