Quotes About Mindfulness

a moment in which we took into account everything we had, and appreciated it all, and felt blessed

Years later I would realize that this was one of the worlds great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose not to think, and that's how the whole world gets into trouble.

Years later I would realize that this was one of the world's great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose not to think, and that's how the whole world gets into trouble.

True philosophy consists in relearning to look at the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

You are people in a labyrinth. Just be. He needed to say nothing more. It was the essence of everything. The distillation of a thousand sacred texts and self-help manuals. Life can be a maze. Don't always look for something more. Enjoy the now. Live for the moment.

Bezetenheid is het beste te genezen door het zelf te bezitten.

Has my watch stopped? No. But its hands do not seem to be going around. Don't look at them. Think of something else - anything else: think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting.

insano?lunun mutsuzlu?u tek bir ?eyden geliyor:bir odada oturup kalmay? bilmemekten!

The moment anyone begins making calculations or comparisons, they cease to live for the moment: the present becomes a mere pointer to the future, and all sorts of questions tend to arise.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Creative attention means really giving our attention to what does not exist.

We should seek neither to escape suffering nor to suffer less, but to remain untainted by suffering.

Never, in any case, is any effort of true attention lost. It is always completely effective on the spiritual plane, and therefore also, in addition, on the inferior plane of the intelligence, for all spiritual light enlightens the intelligence.

How much time do you devote to thinking each day?

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

Ahora que me ha puesto usted al corriente, haré lo posible por olvidarlo

The outside of a horse is good for the inside of man.

Worrying is like praying for something bad to happen.

We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home. Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.

Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.

The act of meditation is being spacious.

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.