Quotes About Mindfulness

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.

a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor.

You are here," she said. "Live here, not in the past in a country that you can't go back to.

I believe that 99 percent of what anyone does can effectively be postponed.

I like the cursor blinking, the coffee drinking, the sitting thinking.

Para todo aquel que intente discernir qué hacer con su vida: PRESTA ATENCIÓN A LAS COSAS A LAS QUE PRESTAS ATENCIÓN. No necesitas mucha más información.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

I ask myself, How can I relax? How can I let go of everything that's happened? You need complete trust to do that.

How to obey parents and listen to your mother's mind. How not to show your own thoughts, to put your feelings behind your face so you can take advantage of hidden opportunities. Why easy things are not worth pursuing. How to know your own worth and polish it, never flashing it around like a cheap ring. Why Chinese thinking is best.

I realized then that we miss so much of life while we are part of it. We fail to see ninety percent of the glories of nature, for to do so would require vision that is simultaneously telescopic and microscopic.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

There is a danger, if one doesn't write habitually, that one will lose the habit. I am always in fear of that. And when you are thinking constantly, writing in your head, writing while you undress, wash your teeth, scrub the dishes, etc. you get roiled and everything turns to mud.

The main thing is to feel your presence—hear you humming or yawning, see your combs & brushes lying around, worry about which dress you should put on, etc.

I think sometimes that I must live a great part of my life in a trance, or in some sort of anesthetic state.

She is so busy just BEING, talking, walking, making love, drinking, that she can achieve nothing else.

Tanto para ti como para mí el momento más sublime, la más intensa alegría no la alcanzamos cuando son nuestras mentes las que dominan sino cuando éstas quedan anuladas, y ambas quedan anuladas de la misma manera, mediante el amor. June ha anulado nuestras mentes...

El hombre sencillo no se toma en serio ni trágicamente. Sigue su camino con el corazón ligero y el alma en paz, sin meta, sin nostalgia, sin impaciencia. Su reino es el mundo y le basta. Su eternidad es el presente y lo colma. No tiene nada que demostrar, puesto que no quiere aparentar nada. Ni nada que buscar puesto que todo está ahí.

Viver no presente, como diziam os estóicos, como dizem todos os sábios, não é um sonho, não é um ideal, não é uma utopia: é a simplíssima e dificílima verdade de viver. A eternidade? Se ela é ''um perpétuo hoje'', como queria Santo Agostinho, é inútil esperá-la amanhã.

Pensando bem, o presente é aliás a única coisa que nunca me faltou.