Quotes About Mindfulness

HAPPINESS is not a goal, it is a by-product.

If the mind is clean, the body can take care of itself.

When we admit that one can not retrace one's steps and live life over again, we may accept the fact that we might as well savor it and enjoy it as we go along and not always be striving for something in the future which after all we may never achieve nor enjoy.

Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

Eliminemos todos los filtros que nos impiden saborear con plenitud este estar aquí y ahora, verdaderos.

I have to relearn—I said to myself—the tranquil pace of those who believe they know where they're going and why.

I concentrated on training myself to react little or not at all. I learned to reduce my emotions to the minimum.

Was für eine Verschwendung wäre es, unsere Geschichte damit zu verderben, dass wir negativen Gefühlen zu viel Raum ließen. Negative Gefühle sind unvermeidlich, es kommt aber darauf an, sie in Grenzen zu halten.‹

Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

Don't succumb. Fight. You are of today, take hold of today, don't regress, don't lose yourself, keep a tight grip. Above all, don't give in to distracted or malicious or angry monologues. Eliminate the exclamation points. Organize your defenses, preserve your wholeness.

esto ocurre cuando en la cabeza tienes un clamor y sigues escribiendo como al dictado, incluso cuando estás haciendo la compra

and my ego gladly avoids leaning out the window.

If you are sitting on a felled tree in a pine forest enjoying the sunshine you can easily forget what time it is. Not that you could forget your gold watch, just the time of day.

People talk too much anyway. A life of talking and you say probably three good things. Accidentally.

The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.

Then I resolved myself and dove under. I felt my skin tighten all over, and realized how infrequently one felt conscious of one's whole body at once, as a continuous surface.

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

So many are obsessed with success that they fail to realize sleep is the best time of day and the second most important activity we do. In fact, it ranks so closely to the first activity, that many people confuse the terms.

Every human being has the right to be rich in mind, body and spirit. They need to live a life that is comforting, productive and continuous. They do not need to compete to reach this level of success but to take it in their strides and to relish the opportunity to pluck from The Universe its opulence.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.