Quotes About Mindfulness

Turn off all notifications; you should control when you want information, not the reverse.

People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself any time you want. There

Those who do contemplative retreats in hermitages are far from doing nothing, since they are constantly engaged in training their minds, but there is no 'noise,' no 'waste' to eliminate, no stress to cure, no chaos to reorganize. This means that there is less to repair during sleep and the sleep quality of meditators is deeper.

In our daily lives, moving from struggle to grace requires practice and commitment.

To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving.

In fact, we take much better care of our smartphones than ourselves.

A study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed a 23 percent decrease in mortality in people who meditated versus those who did not

Too many of us leave our lives—and, in fact, our souls—behind when we go to work.

enough. Nothing else really counts at all." Nature

vivimos nuestras vidas con prisa, intentando encontrar y ahorrar tiempo, nos encontraremos siempre faltos de él, estresados y exhaustos. «Hacia

Hacia delante, hacia arriba y hacia el interior»

No matter where you go, there you are. —BUCKAROO BANZAI

Anyone with a smartphone and a full email in-box knows that it's easy to be busy while not being aware that we're actually living.

Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

Breathing is a favorite "sleep hack" of mine. Counting out a few slow breaths is one of the techniques I use when I'm having trouble falling asleep..the 4-7-8 method..you inhale quietly through the nose for four counts, hold for seven counts, and exhale with a whooshing sound through the mouth for eight counts.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

live fuller, more complete lives, aligned with what matters: A life that isn't defined by our salaries and résumés.

More and more people, of all ages and from all walks of life, are coming to realize that there's more to life than climbing the ladder, that we are more than our résumés, and that we don't have to buy into the collective delusion that burnout is the necessary price we must pay for success.

Montaigne: "There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened.

Yet our appointment with sleep is one we don't seem to mind missing, day after day, night after night. When we think of sleep as an actual appointment-- a meeting of sorts, with ourselves-- we're much more likely to grant it the time it deserves. Given that we now set alarms on our smartphones and smartwatches for things of much less importance, the work-down call is a great idea to adopt.

one of the least discussed benefits (or miracles, really) of sleep: the way it allows us, once we return from our night's journey, to see the world anew, with fresh eyes and a reinvigorated spirit, to step out of time and come back to our lives restored.

2. "Tuck Me In: Relaxing Yourself to Sleep" by Martha Ringer Martha Ringer, a productivity consultant, created this soothing eight-minute meditation to recapture the feeling of comfort and safety we felt as children being tucked in to bed. Available for $0.99 on Amazon.?com, Google Play, and iTunes.

Para los estoicos, la forma más segura de encontrar la felicidad sería, por tanto, buscarla en lo único sobre lo que tenemos control: nuestro mundo interior. Todo lo que existe fuera de nosotros puede desaparecer, así que ¿cómo podemos confiarle nuestra felicidad futura y nuestro bienestar?

El rencor es como beber veneno y esperar a que la otra persona muera.   CARRIE FISHER