Quotes About Mindfulness

Don't mess with me. Attitudes are more important than facts.

It's a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

This invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against then, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one's brain.

Uyurken ya da uyan?rken, çal???rken ya da yemek yerken, içeride ya da d??ar?dayken, banyoda ya da yataktayken, fark etmezdi, kaçamazd?n?z. Kafatas?n?z?n içindeki birkaç santimetreküp d???nda, hiçbir ÅŸey size ait deÄŸildi.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. – George Orwell

IT'S JUST ROUND THE CORNER ALL THE TIME, AND WE ALL KNOW IT'S THERE. STOP FIRING THAT MACHINE-GUN! STOP CHASING WHATEVER YOU'RE CHASING! CALM DOWN, GET YOUR BREATH BACK, LET A BIT OF PEACE SEEP IN YOUR BONES. NO USE. WE DON'T DO IT. JUST KEEP ON WITH THE SAME BLOODY FOOLERIES.

Ver lo que tenemos delante de nuestras narices requiere un esfuerzo constante

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.

Onze daden kunnen slechts zo verstandig zijn als onze gedachten.

Una parte de lo que me gano es mía para quedarme con ella'. Dilo en la mañana cuando primero te levantas. Dilo a mediodía. Dilo por la noche. Dilo cada hora de cada día. Dilo a ti mismo hasta que las palabras parezcan letras de fuego en el cielo.

I advise that you take the wisdom of Algamish and say to yourselves, 'A part of all I earn is mine to keep.' Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it at night. Say it each hour of every day. Say it to yourself until the words stand out like letters of fire across the sky.

Disfruta de la vida mientras estés aquí. No te esfuerces de más ni trates de ahorrar demasiado. Si una décima parte es todo lo que puedes ahorrar cómodamente, conténtate con quedarte con esa porción. Vive de acuerdo con tus ingresos y no vivas de manera avara ni tengas temor de gastar. La vida es buena y la vida es rica con cosas que valen la pena y cosas que disfrutar».

If at the moment when someone cuts us off in traffic or breaks our heart or begins bombing our ancestral village, we could withdraw from judging mode, and enter this other, more accepting mode, we could paradoxically, make ourselves more powerful. By resisting the urge to reduce, in order to subsequently destroy, we keep alive - if only for a few seconds more - the possibility of transformation. -The Thought Experiment

But hopeful dear us, we forget.

Life is full of beauty. Why fight? Why hate? Learn to enjoy, and you will have no need to fight, and no desire to! Love life, walk in a circle, learn to enjoy coffee!

Today, at the stupa, it occurs to me that this low-level ambient fear constitutes a decent working definition of the human: A human being is someone who, having lived awhile, becomes terrified and, having become terrified, deeply craves an end to the fear.

The world is full of people with agendas, trying to persuade us to act on their behalf (spend on their behalf, fight and die on their behalf, oppress others on their behalf). But inside us is what Hemingway called a 'built-in, shockproof, shit detector.' How do we know something is shit? We watch the way the deep, honest part of our mind reacts to it. And that part of the mind is the one that reading and writing refine into sharpness.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

They put an off button on the TV for a reason. Turn it off.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Only in the pauses between things, in the brief contemplative spaces of just being, can we catch a glimpse of love itself.