Quotes About Mindfulness

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world.

I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune , and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world , and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts .

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Not in imagined futures, Or in remembered pasts, But only here and only now Will you find a peace that lasts.

is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.

The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing.

One must accept that one's life is the result of past karmas and that one has the power to choose one's response to every situation.

Arjuna, immerse your mind in me and I will uplift you from the ocean of recurring death. If you cannot do that, then practise yoga and work on your mind. If you cannot do that, then do your work as if it is my work. If you cannot do that, then make yourself my instrument and do as I say. If you cannot do that, then simply do your job and leave the results to me.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12, verses 6 to 11 (paraphrased).

Arjuna, ignore the onslaught of external stimuli and focus between your eyebrows, regulating inhalation and exhalation at the nostrils, to liberate yourself from fear, desire and anger, and discover me within you, I who receive and consume every offering of your yagnas.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, verses 27 to 29 (paraphrased).

Arjuna, to expand your mind, use intelligence to draw your mind away from sensuality, so that there is no self-obsession, aggression, arrogance, desire, anger, possessiveness, attraction or repulsion. You are content in solitude, consuming little, expressing little, connected with the world and aware.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 51 to 53 (paraphrased).

Don't indulge your senses with bhoga, yoke your emotions with yoga.

the quest for peace is the ultimate goal of all existence. This peace is not external but internal. It is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.

Your intellect can choose how to react to a particular stimulation. Often, there is so much conditioning, there is little thought between stimulation and reaction. But the option exists.

Do not surrender to a situation that nurtures the ego. The

Outer peace doesn't guarantee inner peace.

Imagination helps us create concepts, which filter our sensory inputs and ultimately impact our emotional experience. Thus,

Know the thought behind action

anger will yield nothing but more pain and suffering.

Vyasa draws attention to a peculiar human trait of trying to solve a problem through external means without bringing about any internal transformation.

Arjuna, immerse your mind in me and I will uplift you from the ocean of recurring death. If you cannot do that, then practise yoga and work on your mind. If you cannot do that, then do your work as if it is my work. If you cannot do that, then make yourself my instrument and do as I say. If you cannot do that, then simply do your job and leave the results to me.—Bhagavad

By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.

The thought manifests the word; The word manifests the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let them spring forth from love Born out of compassion for all beings. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.

Never go to sleep with bad thoughts and torturing memories. They will not help you to wake up whole and fully serene—the two states of mind and body without which no man can acquit himself well at his day's task. A child should be ushered into the chamber of sleep with serene joy.

Live like tomorrow doesn't exist.