Quotes About Mindfulness

La comparación es el ladrón de la felicidad» —contestó el millonario—. Siempre hay alguien que tiene más fortuna, más fama o más cosas que tú.

Basically, by keeping silent for a day, you are conditioning your will to do as you command it to do. Each time the urge to speak arises, you actively curb this impulse and remain quiet. You see, your will does not have a mind of its own. It waits for you to give it instructions that will spur it into action. The more control you exert over it, the more powerful it will become. The problem is that most people don't use their willpower.

La tranquilidad es el nuevo lujo de nuestra sociedad.

Julian added: "The sages taught me that on an average day the average person runs about sixty thousand thoughts through his mind. What really amazed me, though, was that ninety-five percent of those thoughts were the same as the ones you thought the day before!

Cada día es un día nuevo para el que vive una vida esclarecida

Enjoy every morning and appreciate each day you have on Earth. Take bold risks yet hedge them with common sense. Balance living like there is no tomorrow with behaving like you'll live forever.

Most people can't stand themselves. So, they can never be alone. And silent. They need to constantly be with other people to escape their feelings of self-hatred over all their wasted potential, missing the wonders and wisdom that solitude and quiet bring. Or they watch TV endlessly, not realizing it's eroding their imagination as well as bankrupting their bank account.

Brag less, create more. Distract less, learn more. Gossip less, produce more. Take less, give more. Hate less, love more.

Hören Sie auf ihre Zeit managen zu wollen, sondern managen Sie vielmehr ihren Fokus.

Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you.

Everyone is different. One of the fundamental principles that Yogi Raman taught me was that truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself," Julian replied.

A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul

The second exercise is a favorite of Yogi Raman's. He used to go an entire day without speaking, except in response to a direct question." "Kind of like a vow of silence?" "Actually that's exactly what it was, John. The Tibetan monks who popularized this practice believed that to hold one's tongue for an extended period of time would have the effect of enhancing one's discipline.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

But it wasn't boring like this; I loved it, sitting there doing nothing. There wasn't even anything to look at except the houses across the road.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

You can remember anything if you try hard enough.

Remember, getting stuck in the victim cycle is not bad, it's just not effective. It keeps you from getting results.

anamnesis: the bringing to consciousness of forgotten things.

Life is sufficiently furnished that one need not go looking about for extra guilt.

There's only one way to defeat the sorrow and sadness of life - with laughter and rejoicing. Bring out the good dishes, put on your good clothes, no sense hoarding them.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

The photograph touches me if I withdraw it from its usual blah-blah: "Technique," "Reality," "Reportage," "Art," etc.: to say nothing, to shut my eyes, to allow the detail to rise of its own accord into affective consciousness.

those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.