Quotes About Mindfulness

As long as one is in pursuit of something or the other, it is an endless process. As long as we are getting identified and attached to different situations we get into, however beautiful the situation may be, the moment you think "this is it," you are trying to freeze yourself into a certain state of ignorance.

I gave her just one guidance: "Never look up to anyone; never look down on anyone." If people practiced this simple sadhana, they would see everything just the way it is. If you look up to someone, you will exaggerate their positive qualities; if you look down on someone, you will exaggerate their negative qualities. But if you simply look—not for something, but just look—you will see things just as they are.

An idiot can sit here quietly. A mystic can sit here quietly.

Inaction is also karma.

To be peaceful and joyful is not the end of life; it is the beginning of life. If you are not even peaceful, if you are caught up in your mental nonsense, you have not started living yet. Being peaceful or joyful is the most basic requirement.

It is important to see that whatever seems determined in your life has been determined by you unconsciously.

Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments.

I have never touched any substance, but if you look into my eyes you will see that I am always stoned. I am totally drunk and fully aware. This is one of the pleasures that the science of yoga offers.

If your thought and your emotion are of your making, you can mold them any way you like. There is scientific proof today that without ingesting a drop of alcohol or any other substance, you can get fully intoxicated by yourself. An Israeli organic chemist, Raphael

If you do not eat for a couple of days, you won't think about God. You will only think about food.

If you consciously accept this moment just the way it is, you arrive at a certain ease within yourself. Ease is a consequence of the relaxation of all you have created. You can, in turn, experience the whole of existence as yourself. Everything becomes a part of you, as creation in its very nature exists as one whole. Knowing this experience is yoga, or the ultimate union.

The way out is a very simple change in direction. You just need to see that the source and basis of your experience is within you. Human experience may be stimulated or catalyzed by external situations, but the source is within. Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you. Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within. Right

A day is but a piece of time That lets us live and die. …This day let us live and Live totally. —SADHGURU

But you won't ever see me distressed because my way of being is not in any way enslaved to what's happening outside. This is not an otherworldly achievement. It is possible for everyone to live this way.

Death is the creation of the unaware, because

If you go outward, it is an endless journey. If you turn inward, it is just one moment.

Anger is fundamentally self-defeating. If you look at your life closely, you will find that you have done the most idiotic and life-negative things when you were angry. Above all, you were working against yourself. If you work against yourself, if you sabotage your own well-being, you are obviously choosing unintelligence as a way of life. I

Remain still. Allow your attention to slowly grow still as well. Do this for five to seven minutes a day. You will notice that your breath will slow down.

Meditation is not about going somewhere – it is falling back into yourself.

With a little awareness, every human being can begin to transform habit into choice, compulsion into consciousness.

Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within.

The foundations of peace and bliss are not about attending to the external realities of your life, but in accessing and organizing the inner nature of your being.

Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.

kriya yoga cannot be done with people who talk "freedom" all the time. It is not for people who keep asking, "Why am I not free to eat my ice cream? Why can't I wake up whenever I feel like it? Why can't I eat, drink, or have sex with whatever, whoever, whenever I feel like?" If you take the path of kriya, a certain fundamental discipline has to be brought into all physical, psychological, and emotional processes.