Quotes About Mindfulness

Find what you want in what you have and happiness will be assured.

Work without working, and play without playing. Do without doing, and be without being. To live an effortless life, simply be yourself.

This moment is the only thing that's real. Worrying about the future and lamenting the past only crowds out the beauty of what is happening now.

What is suffering? The desire for things to be other than they are. What is contentment? Accepting everything as it is.

The quicker your breath, the more agitated you are; the deeper your breath, the more relaxed you are.

Become peace. Bathe all you meet with your serenity. In doing so, peace will be abundantly yours.

When life becomes difficult, allow yourself to feel the pain in the moment. Go with it for as long as it lasts, and then watch it dissolve away. Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.

Become aware of what you feel. When you see parts of yourself that you don't like, just watch the feelings come and go without getting too caught up in what it is you're feeling. Everything passes—these emotions will, too.

Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have.

Today I will just observe and listen." • "Today I will trust that everything will work out well." • "Today I will accept things as they are." • "Today I will be aware of the beauty all around me." I recommend affirmations

a single instant of total presence was worth the reading of all the texts, all the poets, all the philosophers.

when our desire occupies all of space the absence of one object goes totally unnoticed, because the flow of our awareness remains free to come into contact with thousands of others.

The desire to be wholly available to life suffices. You do not have to be involved in, or to practice, or to believe anything whatsoever. The ultimate things present themselves in such a simple way that it is enough to experience them by yourself.

In short, to empty the mind means 'to polish the mirror', thereby permitting clear reflections of external phenomena and spontaneous insights into the true nature of reality.

Au fond, ce journal aura été un perpétuel exercice d'accommodation. Échapper au flou, maintenir le corps et l'esprit dans le même axe… J'ai passé ma vie à « faire le point ».

A questão não é saber se tenho tempo para ler, mas se ofereço a mim próprio, ou não, a felicidade de ser leitor.

He saw thinking as a form of intoxication.

No two people have exactly the same view of the world. Therefore, the most important science of all is the science of perception and consciousness, which holds the key to all other sciences and which has always been of paramount importance in the traditions of the Orient.

Spiritual masters claim that the insights obtained from the 'original mind' in deep meditation cannot be conveyed in terms of rational thought and language, which are products of an entirely different, much narrower mode of consciousness. Only through persistent personal practice may one come to experience the awareness of 'original mind' and tap the vast trove of primordial wisdom and spiritual insight it holds.

In a chapter of the Internal Medicine Classic entitled 'The Oldest Truth', it is written: 'When one empties the mind and frees it of all desires, the genuine energy arises. If one maintains an undisturbed spirit within, no disease will occur.

The best rule to follow with fruits is 'Eat them alone, or leave them alone.

one needed to be careful what one wished for.

Remind yourself that every second spent scrolling through social media is one you will never get back.

How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window?