Quotes About Mindfulness

Big events in life are hard to miss... So take advantage of the little ones no matter how small, because they're the ones that make up most of our lives.

Obsessively hating something is still obsessing. Do not forget what happens when you stare into the abyss.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

I don't rent space to anyone in my head.

No hay en él sitio alguno que no te vea a ti. Tienes que cambiar tu vida».

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When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

The secret is to renounce nothing, cling to nothing, enjoy everything and allow it to pass, to flow.

You're never so centered on yourself as when you're depressed.

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence.

Put this program into action, a thousand times: (a) identify the negative feelings in you; (b) understand that they are in you, not in the world, not in external reality; (c) do not see them as an essential part of "I"; these things come and go; (d) understand that when you change, everything changes.

SERENITY "Are there ways for gauging one's spiritual strength?" "Many." "Give us one." "Find out how often you become disturbed in the course of a single day.

The root of evil is within you. As you begin to understand this, you stop making demands on yourself, you stop having expectations of yourself, you stop pushing yourself and you understand. Nourish yourself on wholesome food, good wholesome food. I'm not talking about actual food, I'm talking about sunsets, about nature, about a good movie, about a good book, about enjoyable work, about good company, and hopefully you will break your addictions to those other feelings.

Happiness is a state of nonillusion, of dropping the illusion.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. You are always a slave to what you're not aware of. When you're aware of it, you're free from it. It's there, but you're not affected by it. You're not controlled by it; you're not enslaved by it. That's the difference.

So you must "receive" your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them.

Neuroti?ar je osoba koja brine zbog ne?ega što se nije dogodilo u prošlosti. On nije kao mi, normalni ljudi, koji brinemo zbog ne?ega što se ne?e dogoditi u budu?nosti.

You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don't know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn't the future just another trap?

Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death.

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, "Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions.