Quotes About Mindfulness

Keep uppermost in your mind that the illusion that you experience is an illusion, that it is surrounding you for the purpose of teaching you. It can only teach you if you become aware of its teachings.

Pay Attention to What Is Important, Not Just What Is Quantifiable

To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.

You have that alarmed look, one caused by a very unpleasant thought about something that might not even happen. Those unpleasantries don't usually happen, you know. What were you thinking about, dear Cora?" "Catastrophe," she whispered. "Well, stop it." Bonnie began unbuttoning the dress. "Just stop it.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.

When we practice asanas from an interior perspective, we bring our minds back into the body. Instead of directing the body as a separate entity, we relocate our minds within our body and begin to listen to the nonverbal, nonmental information contained within the soma. As we give our full attention to every breath, movement, and the subtlest of sensations, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied.

What these first central precepts the yamas and niyamas ask us to remember is that the techniques and forms are not goals in themselves but vehicles for getting to the essence of who we are.

the purpose of Yoga, which is to realize a unitive state, concentrated asana practice, the third limb of Ashtanga Yoga, will naturally involve each of the other seven limbs of practice, especially the ten ethical precepts of the yamas and niyamas (the first two limbs).

When we're not busy being somewhere else, more often than not what we participate with is our past or future version of ourselves and our life. Instead of seeing how things actually are, we continue to see them as they once were or as we imagine they will be.

we are practicing to live, not living to practice,

Rather, we can regularly ask ourselves these questions: Who am I becoming through this practice? Am I becoming the world in which I wish to live?

When we offer ourselves unqualified compassion, we start to make positive associations with our practice time. We become the kind of person we'd like to hang out with.

Very simply, we set aside time and a quiet place to engage in inquiries that will remind us of who we really are. We do this practice as often as necessary for this understanding to become an implicit part of our being. For most of us this means practicing from the first breath to the last.

Yoga is thus not something we can make happen but something that happens to us. But it does not happen by accident.

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know. It is a way of remembering our true nature, which is essentially joyful and peaceful.

There were just little things and they still made me sad, but I become better at staying in my sadness and at resisting the urge to chase it away.

Just six hours of meditation training and eleven hours of practice have been shown to strengthen the white matter tracks in brain regions that help to govern our emotional reactivity.

I live every day to the fullest -- as if it might be last, as you never know when your number's up!

nuestra mision es estar en paz con nosotros mismos. Por eso es que nuestra mision es mas cuestion de "ser" que de "hacer." Obviamente, el deseo de servir a los demos en muy fuerte en muchas personas.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

Breathing is one of the few involuntary actions of the body over which we can exercise voluntary control. That is to say, it is on the border-line between the regions of the conscious and the unconscious. The man or woman who can speak or be silent as he chooses is the individual who has self-control.

The first exercise is to spend an hour every day without saying anything except in answer to direct questions.