Quotes About Mindfulness

Thich Naht Hahn: The path is the goal.

One of the most common forms of laziness is staying busy. Too busy to take care of your wealth, or your health, or your relationships.

Vivamos primero, que las observaciones vendrán luego por sí solas.

The best-trained part of us, though, is the mouth, it ?is always obediently and devoutly shut. And it's only too true: an open mouth is a yawning fact, the fact that its owner is dwelling with his few thoughts in some other place than the domain and pleasure-garden of attentiveness.

We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.

Se aburren quienes se pasan la vida esperando que algo los estimule desde fuera...

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

Buddha believed that the less you judge things—including the contents of your mind—the more clearly you'll see them, and the less deluded you'll be.

Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.

RAIN. First you Recognize the feeling. Then you Accept the feeling (rather than try to drive it away). Then you Investigate the feeling and its relationship to your body. Finally, the N stands for Nonidentification, or, equivalently, Nonattachment. Which is a nice note to end on, since not being attached to things was the Buddha's all-purpose prescription for what ails us.

In fact, one big lesson from Buddhism is to be suspicious of the intuition that your ordinary way of perceiving the world brings you the truth about it.

You can't control other people's behaviour, but you can conrol your responses to it.

Sometimes fear could be forgotten, but never for long.

A little quiet contemplation is a good way to begin the day.

Striving and surrender are not compatible. If you are overeager to achieve something, notice the force of your intention. Watch your faster breathing and feel your tenser muscles. This clear observing, this quality of attention, can take you to a state of relaxed awareness.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm here and I'm listening; and there is still joy in this world.

Let us not gallop to meet future difficulties," said Robin. "A walking pace is enough.

Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes change.

How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.

The richest person in the world, I've since discovered, isn't the person who has the most but the one who needs the least.

Give a prayer of thanks for all you have. Work on your gratitude list. Listen to some great music. Watch the sun come up, or perhaps go for a quick walk in natural surroundings if you feel up to it.

Some of life's best pleasures are simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy.

I repeat, 'I am strong, able and calm.

the words you say to yourself affect your self-image