Quotes About Mindfulness

lamentar las cosas no sirve de nada y resolverlas sirve de mucho.

If you are dazzled by the appearance of a promised pleasure, guard yourself against being carried away by it; but let the matter wait, and allow yourself some delay. Then bring to mind both points of time: that in which you will enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself after you have enjoyed it; and set before you, in opposition to these, how you will rejoice and praise yourself if you abstain.

When we experience physical or mental pain, the first thing to do is to acknowledge it and allow it to be there simply as a feeling that will pass. A popular and useful acronym to remember is RAIN: Recognise what is happening; Allow the experience to be there; Investigate with kindness; Non-identification. By doing this we can loosen the added layer of suffering and become better able to live with the pain.

The relationship between the calm absorption of meditation and insight is captured with a simile: just like we would not be able to see our reflection in a bowl of water that had been mixed with a dye, or was bubbling over a fire, or was muddy or had algae growing in it, in the same way we need a calm mind to see things clearly.

When planning for the future, it might be useful to follow the Stoics' suggestion of adding to our intention a tag like 'if nothing prevents' – a secular version of 'God willing

Could we react as Seneca tried to do? 'I force my mind to pay attention to itself and not to be distracted by anything external. It does not matter what is making a noise outside, so long as there is no turmoil inside – as long as there is no wrangling between desire and fear, as long as greed is not at odds with self-indulgence, one carping at the other. … Only as the mind develops into excellence do we achieve any real tranquillity.

On the question of speaking, Stoics and Buddhists are at one. In Epictetus' words: 'Be mostly silent, or speak merely when necessary, and in few words. We may enter sparingly into conversation sometimes, when the occasion calls for it; but not about any of the common subjects, such as gladiators, or horse races, or athletic champions, or food, or drink – the vulgar topics of conversation; and especially not about individuals, either to blame, or praise, or make comparisons.

In Buddhism, there are different levels of ethical teachings. The basic rules for good conduct are set out in the precepts. There are five precepts for lay people and rather more for monks. For lay people, the precepts advise refraining from: harming living creatures taking what is not given sexual misconduct false speech taking intoxicants that cause heedlessness

Also, we need to help ourselves before we can benefit others: 'that one who is himself sinking in the mud should pull out another who is sinking in the mud is impossible; that one who is not himself sinking in the mud should pull out another who is sinking in the mud is possible', says the Buddha.

Mistaken about good and bad, unwittingly taken in by things that are ultimately harmful for us, we suffer from something akin to a perceptual illusion, only much deeper and more problematic. It's like the Müller-Lyer illusion: we can't help experiencing the lines as of different length, even if we know they're not.

Había cerrado los ojos... era más fácil sentir con los ojos cerrados.

De ahí la sobria ebrietas como meta, pues quien se educa en ella disfruta de la relajación con dignidad. Como añade Filón de Alejandría, «quienes no se permiten la ebriedad, y se consideran sobrios, son presa de las mismas emociones que el ebrio»

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams: expert hunter of himself, every minute in ambush.

Tras el vivir y el soñar, está lo que más importa: despertar.

No my soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its clear eyes open, far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Tantos años angustiado por la obsesión de terminar cuanto antes las cosas, de saltar de un minuto a otro como de un vagón a otro en un tren en marcha y ahora empieza a intuir que lo que le faltaba tal vez no era velocidad sino lentitud, paciencia y no confusa agitación.

A veces uno no se da cuenta de las cosas más obvias si alguien no le llama la atención sobre ellas.

Tôi nói v?i ý ngh? là có l? tôi nên im l?ng. Và tôi nói.

you should always tie your shoe before walking because u just might slip one day

A most effective way for a person to keep away the stress from own life is to have around oneself always people very less and never those who are infatuated to own facial looks and/or dress.

A person who goes for the morning walk in sleepers is likely to grasp the insightful things better on a sensitive-cum-sensible matter than one who goes for the walk with the shoes put on.

A person who has no mind doesn't mind how the world is shaping up all around and remains confined all the time within oneself only.

A person who is always careful of his words before speaking out can never say anything good that is worth to be heard or listened by the people.