Quotes About Mindfulness

So if you are thinking, words are very bad. But if you are not thinking, all words and all things that you can see or hear or smell or taste or touch will help you. So it is very important for you to cut off your thinking and your attachment to words.

be very careful about wanting enlightenment. This is a bad Zen sickness. When you keep a clear mind, the whole universe is you, you are the universe. So you have already attained enlightenment. Wanting enlightenment is only thinking. It is something extra, like painting legs on the picture of a snake. Already the snake is complete as it is. Already the truth is right before your eyes.

Para entender tu verdadera naturaleza, debes esperar el momento y las condiciones apropiadas. Cuando ese momento llega, te despiertas como si fuese de un sueño. Comprendes que lo que has descubierto te pertenece y que no proviene de ningún lugar externo. Aforismo budista

The less we cling to one side of reality—betting on either or or, arguing for for or against—the more we can be aware of the exquisite counterpoint of things. Everything matters: how we vote, how we tie our shoelaces, how we respond to the faintest whisper of a thought. And nothing matters, because (look!) it's already gone. When we understand this, we're home free.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Your attitude determines your altitude

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

Animals do not possess this ability. We call it "self-awareness" or the ability to think about your very thought process.

it is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things.

While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves. We can't focus or base our happiness on another's progress; we can focus only on our own.

responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.

Ironically, you'll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you. You'll no longer build your emotional life on other people's weaknesses. In addition, you'll find it easier and more desirable to change because there is something—some core deep within—that is essentially changeless.

Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.

humans have between what happens to us and our response to it.

Someone inquired of a Hindu who had a great serenity and peace about him, no matter what pressures were put upon him, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" His answer: "I never leave my place of meditation." Every morning he meditated for thirty minutes. Then in his mind and heart he never left it—he maintained the spirit of that place all during his public life and pressures.

We often get into ruts, on treadmills, caught up in patterns and habits that aren't useful. We don't stop to ask, what can I learn from this week that will keep next week from essentially being a repeat of the same?