Quotes About Mindfulness

But is there a chance that efficiency is not the answer? Is getting more things done in less time going to make a difference—or will it just increase the pace at which I react to the people and circumstances that seem to control my life?

So we worked on visualising relaxation in the middle of the big pressure circumstance. We discovered that the nature of the visualisation is very important. If you visualise the wrong thing, you'll produce the wrong thing.

Do what is important rather than what is urgent.

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them.

entre el estímulo y la respuesta, el ser humano tiene la libertad interior de elegir.

Remind yourself of the gap between stimulus and response. Make a commitment to yourself to exercise your freedom to choose.

What matters most gets buried under layers of pressing problems, immediate concerns, and outward behaviors. I become reactive.

Lo que nos hiere o daña no es lo que nos sucede, sino nuestra respuesta a lo que nos sucede.

You might work on your behavior—you could try harder, be more diligent, double your speed. But your efforts would only succeed in getting you to the wrong place faster.

Se trata más bien de un proceso que consiste en mantener en mente la propia visión y los propios valores, y en organizar la vida para que sea congruente con las cosas más importantes

challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

If there is one message to glean from this wisdom, 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.

many of us find that increasing our speed only makes things worse.

To begin with the end in mind means to approach my role as a parent, as well as my other roles in life, with my values and directions clear. It means to be responsible for my own first creation, to rescript myself so that the

Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Jei koki? nors aplinkybi? negalime pakeisti, turime ramiai jas priimti ir dom?tis tais dalykais, kuriuos pakeisti galime.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It

you'll feel comfortable about your decision. Whatever you choose to do, you can focus on it and enjoy it.

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

What is the one activity that you know if you did superbly well and consistently would have significant positive results in your personal life? What is the one activity that you know if you did superbly well and consistently would have significant positive results in your professional or work life?

such as letting the weaknesses of other people ruin our emotional lives or feeling victimized by people and events out of our control.

We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world.

It's hard not to get impatient. It takes character to be proactive, to focus on your Circle of Influence, to nurture growing things, and not to "pull up the flowers to see how the roots are coming.