Quotes About Mindfulness

It's the simple things we miss, she thought.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, Not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less Than whatever you can know. Breathe out, touch in, let go.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Solo puedo controlar aquello de lo que soy consciente. Y aquello de lo que no soy consciente me controla a mí. La conciencia me capacita.

Conciencia implica adquirir un conocimiento de algo a través de la reflexión, de la observación o de la interpretación de lo que uno ve, oye, siente, etcétera».

Every moment has a lesson for you to learn. Learn to listen.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

and as he walked slowly through the evening, breathing the fragrance and tasting upon his tongue the sharp night-time air, it seemed to him that the moment he walked in was enough and that he might not need a great deal more.

He seldom thought of the past or the future, or of the disappointments and joys of either; he concentrated all his energies of which he was capable upon the moment of his work and hoped that he was at last defined by what he did.

Too often, people approach meditation as though they were taking medicine—it tastes bad, but they grin and bear it because it's supposed to be good for them. Instead, make meditation into a pleasurable activity. If you're at ease and happy, you will be more successful than if you're tense and straining. The

Here, monks, a monk goes to the forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty place, sits down, folds his legs crosswise, keeps his body erect, and brings mindful awareness to the fore. With mindfulness he breathes in, with mindfulness he breathes out. ?n?p?nasati Sutta

No time is entirely present,

This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.

It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.

Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit, either.

collaborator of our lab, Dr. Yiyuan Tang, studied the impact of mindfulness meditation with undergraduates to improve executive attention, finding significant improvements as well. We hope that training methods like this will be further evaluated, along with other methods, both as possible means of improving attention prior to school and for children and adults with specific needs.

Una consecuencia de la plasticidad del cerebro es que cada experiencia, pensamiento y emoción cambia físicamente su cerebro, de lo que se desprende que usted, querido lector, tiene la capacidad, y la responsabilidad, de cuidar y mejorar su cerebro.

Berbicaralah mengenai hal-hal yang membahagiakan. Dunia sudah cukup sedih tanpa keluh kesah kita. Sebenarnya tidak ada jalan hidup yang seluruhnya sulit ditempuh.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

THE LIFE WORTH WHILE Like one blindfolded groping out his way, I will not try to touch beyond to-day. Since all the future is concealed from sight, I need but strive to make the next step right.

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle.