Quotes About Mindfulness

He who holds his tongue in check controls both mind and body (James 3.2ff.). Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him.

One is less lonely when one is alone.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Al igual que las nubes que se forman en el cielo permanecen cierto tiempo en él y luego se disuelven en el vacío del espacio, los pensamientos ilusorios surgen, duran un momento y después se desvanecen en la vacuidad de la mente. De hecho no ha pasado realmente nada.

Mindfulness should guide all your actions and your spiritual endeavors. Whatever you do, always apply three essential points: undertake the action with the intention of doing so for the good of all beings; execute it with perfect concentration, free of attachment to concepts of subject, object, and action; and, finally, dedicate the merit you have created to the enlightenment of all beings.

Everything depends on your intention. All the time, therefore, check your attitude and motivation. As Patrul Rinpoche said, everyone wants happiness, but the true way to reach perfect happiness is to bring happiness to others.

Welcome the view that the things which you think are wrecking your life - like your thoughts and emotions, or illness and death - are actually gifts for your transformation... Whether life presents us with a pleasant sound or an unpleasant sound, a pleasant smell or an unpleasant smell, a pleasant thought or an unpleasant thought, it's sheer delight because instead of identifying with the experience, we simply touch it and let it go.

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good is it to brood over the past and fret about the future? Dwell in the simplicity of the present moment. Live in harmony with the dharma. Make it the heart of your life and experience. Be the master of your own destiny.

Expecting a lot from people, you do a lot of smiling; Needing many things for yourself, you have many needs to meet; Making plans to do first this, then that, your mind's full of hopes and fears— From now on, come what may, don't be like that.

Many of us lead family lives. At most, the members of a family stay together for the duration of a lifetime, often much less. While that fleeting moment of being together still lasts, we should try to remain in perfect harmony with each other, while observing the Dharma as much as possible. Night and day, let us turn our minds toward goodness, love, and compassion.

Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now that you have the opportunity to practice dharma, do not waste a single moment on anything else.

Constantly check your actions and intentions against each verse of this text, one by one, and any practice you engage in will progress and bear fruit with the greatest of ease. Permeate your mind with these teachings day by day, month by month, and without difficulty you will naturally awaken and develop within you all the qualities of a bodhisattva, just as a bee flying from flower to flower sips nectar from each, and from that nectar produces honey.

Sometimes, visualize that your heart is a brilliant ball of light. As you breathe out, it radiates rays of white light in all directions, carrying your happiness to all beings. As you breathe in, their suffering, negativity and afflictions come towards you in the form of dense, black light, which is absorbed in your heart and disappears in its brilliant white light without a trace, relieving all beings of their pain and sorrow.

Do not waste a single moment, like a warrior who, pierced to the heart by an arrow, knows he has only few minutes to live. It is now, while we are in good health and in possession of all our physical and mental faculties, that we should practice dharma.

La futilité des préoccupations mondaines leur apparaissait dans toute son évidence.

Nous devrions moins nous inquiéter de notre apparence physique et chercher davantage à ne pas gaspiller notre vie.

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Because if a woman learns to separate what she thinks from how she feels, she has a chance of making the right decision for herself.

everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget — the design of life; and good when we are forgotten — the design of death.

Work, look for peace and calm in work; you will find it nowhere else.

Znam da bez pobede nad sobom ne možemo posti?i nijednu trajnu pobedu nad drugim. Ali, tako?e znam, ta?nije, ose?am, slutim, da ?ovek ne sme da pobedi sebe ni u ime najve?e pobede. Ni za kakvo zemaljsko carstvo. Mudar borac bi verovatno bio onaj koji vodi ra?una da ni za jednu stvar na svetu ne izgubi sebi više no što od te stvari može da dobije.

If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.