Quotes About Mindfulness

Rage turned outward is called rage. Rage turned inward is called ulcers and cancer and things like that. The unhealthiest thing you can do with anger is to deny you have it.

Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.

Today I will not be tempted to wander the byroads of pain, but rather I will set my feet upon the path of joy and peace. May the spirit of God protect my mind from any forces of fear that would divert my thinking.

Childishness is when we're so preoccupied with things that ultimately don't matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.

I surrender my attachment to lesser things.

Empezamos a sentirnos más a gusto con nosotros mismos, menos abrumados por la angustia crónica que marca la época en la que vivimos.

Whether I am paid or not, whether I am working out in the world or planting my own garden, I dedicate whatever I am doing today to the uplifting of all things.

May the activity of my mind and work of my hands be of service to the healing of the world.

Durning the years when we were carelessly dismissing what we later came to see as the most important things in life, we kept crying out woefully that we were looking for meaning. All that time we were starved for meaning, we were lacking it for no other reason than we weren't ascribing meaning to the situations right in front of us! meaning isn't what a situation gives us; its what we give to a situation.

La verdad es que cada etapa de la vida es perfecta, si realmente nos permitimos vivir en ella.

You can't be a light of the world and a nervous wreck at the same time.

Cuando las cosas del mundo nos preocupan, lo que tenemos que hacer no es unirnos al caos sino adentrarnos en la paz interior.

La única forma de alcanzar el poder en un mundo que avanza demasiado rápido es aprender a tener calma.

Today I accept myself as I am.

The greatest opportunity for humanity's survival in the twenty-first century lies not in widening our external horizons, but in deepening our internal ones.

Cuando nos aceptamos tal como somos, y en el lugar donde estamos, disponemos de mayor energía para entregársela a la vida. No perdemos tiempo intentando cambiar las cosas.

Anger is like the white sugar of activist energy; it gives adrenaline in the short term but is debilitating in the long term. Love is the nutrition of the gods.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.

Today I will not burden myself by thinking I need to run the universe. I needn't control anyone or anything. I need only to show up fully with my heart and in my excellence.

nuestra herramienta más eficaz para cambiar el mundo es nuestra capacidad para «cambiar de mentalidad con respecto al mundo.»

The holiness of the present delivers me from the pain of yesterday.

Spiritual law is unalterable: if we focus on the guilt in others, we'll see guilt in ourselves; if we focus on the innocence in others, we'll feel the innocence within ourselves. Perception is a choice.

Si queremos que nuestras vidas cambien, de nada nos servirá mudarnos a otra ciudad, cambiar de trabajo o cambiar de una relación a otra. A donde quiera que vayamos, como dicen, vamos con nosotros mismos. Nos manifestamos, no tanto por la ubicación geográfica como por la conciencia. Podemos viajar a lugares remotos, pero eso, en sí mismo, no nos cambiará básicamente. Para que nuestras vidas cambien, tenemos que viajar al nivel más profundo.

we have forgotten who we ourselves are.