Quotes About Mindfulness

It's all very well learning why I behave in the way that I do. That doesn't stop me behaving in those ways. I am just more conscious of them.' Consciousness is where therapy stops and we begin. Therapy can only give us knowledge. It is up to us to use it.

The Buddhists tell us that in order to find yourself, you first have to lose your mind.

Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.

The Buddhists tell us that in order to find yourself, you first have to lose your mind.' It is one of the most consoling things anybody has ever said to me.

Managing our stress and our rest is a sign of living wisely.

We must learn to cherish all the moments of our lives and to call them holy.

We allow the habit of busyness to replace our habits of prayer and Scripture reading.

Bobby Abbott seemed to have lost attention after the first sentence.

When you make a mistake or otherwise find yourself behaving like a human, the best practice is to leave it at the stream. Don't carry it around like that angry monk who kept obsessing about the other monk's behavior. Just lay that burden down and let it go.

it lies in the capacity to be fully present. Present for a task, for a conversation, for the moment, for an opportunity. Present for your larger purpose in the world.

For the fact is that doing two things at once makes it impossible to be present for either because your attention is by definition fragmented.

When you're on autopilot, you are not really thinking about this situation, this moment, this challenge, or the specific response it requires. You're just reacting in a way that has become comfortable for you over time. Your brain saves a lot of energy this way. You expand fewer mental calories. But you're not really present for what you are doing. Which is why you are not considering whether your behavior is serving you now.

And in fact, psychologists draw a straight line of causation between chronic rumination and chronic depression. Dwelling on the negative and berating yourself is bad for your health, physical and mental. And the longer your mind is consumed with gloomy self-accusations, the worse you will feel.

But try to avoid being too hard on yourself or identifying too many items you need to get to work on,

It turned out that experienced meditators activated the parts of the brain that suppress interruptions and they were able to completely block out the beeps. They protected their own state of fascination.

Never ever get mad at yourself if you miss a ball, lose a point, or double fault.

Play the tennis that is in front of you, not the tennis you played yesterday or the tennis you hope to play tomorrow.

Kita tidak bisa mengendalikan apa yang kita rasakan, kita hanya bisa mengendalikan tindakan kita.

sitting cross-legged on the

Vigilando, laborando y meditando todas las cosas prosperan

It's best to be like water, nurturing the ten thousand things without competing, flowing into places people scorn, very like the Tao. Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame.

Mindful is remembering that being alive is the ultimate gift. When we know we have a limited amount of time, we're more careful how we spend it.

Freedom is an inside job.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.