Quotes About Mindfulness

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

Por mediación de diversas técnicas terapéuticas, llegué a estar muy al tanto de mis propias neurosis, pero eso no necesariamente las exorcizaba.

Necesitamos esa paz porque el mundo avanza demasiado aprisa y el sistema nerviosos de todos y cada uno se ve afectado simplemente por la velocidad de las cosas. Todos parecemos estar agotados, como si necesitáramos unas nuevas vacaciones para encontrarnos de nuevo con nosotros mismos

Cualquiera que sea el lugar al que vayamos mañana, es importante agradecer el lugar donde nos encontramos y disfrutar los frutos de hoy.

Nuestra capacidad de brillar es igual a nuestra capacidad de olvidar el pasado y el futuro.

For in any given moment, regardless of circumstances, I can choose again. I can choose strength instead of weakness, and love instead of fear. I can choose to bless instead of blame, and to lean into the future rather than dragging with me the past.

In reading a recent novel, I myself was convicted by a comment the mother makes to her adult daughter: 'My dear, you've missed so many opportunities to say nothing.' We do miss these opportunities, as well as opportunities to say less and say it more judiciously. And so we miss particular delights of finding words and speaking them into silences big enough to allow them to be heard.

Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. Above all, mind what you say. "Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is a fire"—that's the truth.

So when she seemed distracted or absent-minded, it was in fact, I think, that she was aware of too many things, having no principle for selecting the more from the less important, and that her awareness could never be diminished, since it was among the things she had thought of as familiar that this disaster had taken shape.

I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything.

I have been thinking lately how I have loved my physical life.

I think through things. It calms me. Otherwise I don't react as well as I could have. As I would have wanted to.

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

People don't understand that the hardest thing is actually doing something that is close to nothing. It demands all of you...there is no object to hide behind. It's just you.

You think you're disconnected. But the question is, what are you disconnected from? You're actually constantly disconnecting from yourself by having all these things.

Fill my head with any thoughts but those that fill it now.' She could not yet cry, for her tears were far too deep to reach.

Every meal should be a small celebration

The way to healing an addiction lies in finding a connection between body and soul.

To each his own way of calming down.

found that with less effort in meditation, I could relax into a quiet, aware state much more easily.

My experience of meditation was different from one day to the next, but a common thread emerged: the way I felt afterward. I began to experience a quiet satisfaction from my daily practice of quieting my mind.

The word that comes to mind is "equanimity." After meditating, I was better able to watch what happened around me without jumping into reactions.

There is a level accessed in meditation that is beyond the neuron. This level has many names; one we could use is infinite awareness.