Quotes About Mindfulness

DoÄŸan?n bize sunduÄŸu iyileÅŸtirici güçlere kalbimizi kapatmamam?z gerektiÄŸini düÅŸünüyorum.

you must learn to keep on this side of the borderline between the real and the unreal. Then the power to escape at will into a beautiful world of your own will help you amazingly through the hard places of life.

One would not drink of the cup of forgetfulness if one could.

Birazc?k taktir, bazen özenli bir ÅŸekilde yetiÅŸtirme kadar faydal? olurdu.

Where is my conscience, Anne? I want to know. Is it in my stomach?

her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.

Have you ever noticed how many different silences there are, Gilbert? The silence of the woods... of the shore... of the meadows... of the nigh... of the summer afternoon. All different because all the undertones that thread them are different. I'm sure if I were totally blind and insensitive to heat and cold I could easily tell you where I am by the quality of the silence about me.

Sure and ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.

A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.

The cultivation of mindfulness is ultimately a matter of life and death, not in a scary way, but in the sense that we are always at risk, in every moment, for missing what is deepest and richest in our lives, the texture of the tapestry itself. We might say (every pun intended) that the richness lies right beneath our noses in any and every moment.

The act of breathing begins our life as we come out of the womb; in our last moment, when we cease breathing, our life is over. It only makes sense that the breath should also have a profound influence on all the moments in between.

We see that fear isn't something we own or have any control over. We've been living as if we do, as if we should be able not to feel it. But all we can do is meet it skillfully.

It's actually wonderful to see that you're nobody and that all the fear you've had all your life was in relation to this self you thought you had.

The way to get from point A to point B is really to be at A.

Reading has been very different for me ever since, much lighter, with less attachment.

You may also notice the stillness of the pause between breaths.

It can be wonderful to see something about ourselves, even when what we're seeing is not especially wonderful.

Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha. —Ajahn Chah

But finally, you're not studying Buddhism. You're studying you.

Desire isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we need to see how pervasive and driven this whole tendency is, and bring some balance to it, so that we give ourselves some choices.

This process—of appropriating everything as me or mine—is constantly going on and has as its whole basis the existence of a self.

We've heard the content of our mental formations so many times we're sick of them.

It is unintelligent to try to hold on to things, to freeze them, when we can't.

Life is a precious gift, it's all we have, and it is always happening in the present.