Quotes About Mindfulness

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

Depending on how we handle them, feelings can lead to great trouble. But the feelings themselves just are. In that sense, feelings are like arms or legs. If you hit or kick someone, then your arms or legs are causing trouble. But there's nothing inherently wrong with arms or legs. The same with feelings.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

The apostle James tells us that a man who can control his tongue can control the rest of his body as well. This goes double for the man who is putting what the tongue does into a more permanent setting.

A wise man who loves the peaches at home does not want to shake any other trees.

whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Cor. 10:31). This is quite true—whatever you eat or drink, on whatever day, for whatever meal. This includes, of course, the french fries, but that does not mean that you are to stand on the restaurant chair in order to thank God that you are not like other men, the ones who do not glorify God for the french fries.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time. The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for. And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become. We don't give thanks because we're happy. We are happy because we give thanks.

We do not give thanks because we are happy.  We are happy because we give thanks."   --Douglas Wood

Like the trees and winds and waters, we pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves....that the world is changed.

Live each day fully, one day at a time, live time fully, for each moment could be our last.

It is in the stillness of our own self that we can learn those things that escape us in the noise of the market place...

Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.

Stop shoulding on yourself

Words from another person cannot hurt you unless you give them power by taking them into your being, accepting them, and making them yours.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

A Chinese proverb goes: "We do not live for a hundred years but worry enough for a thousand" (Char, 1970, p. 15).

According to the classic Zen saying, "Do everything as you do anything.

MAKING WISE DECISIONS: When GOD brings something to your mind-----Don't let it pass without dealing with it.

Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, "Oh yes, you're so right," but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!

This loving person is a person who abhors waste waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

Cuando se da la unificación total y el campo neuronal deja de diferenciarse de la Lattice en su estado puro, desaparece el campo neuronal y lo que subsiste es la conciencia pura. En esta condición, el conocimiento, el conocido y el conocedor se vuelven uno y lo mismo, porque en el conocerse y comprenderse a uno mismo en ese estado se comprende y se conoce todo lo que existe.

El estado de Iluminación implica la desaparición de todo filtro en la percepción, tanto del entorno como del sí mismo.

The self-healing power of the body is often overlooked because it is rarely given a chance to act in a world that expects the quick fix.