Quotes About Awareness

Dr. Maté has written several best-selling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction.

Más del 80 por ciento de los entrevistados practica a diario alguna forma de conciencia plena (mindfulness) o de meditación.

What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind by Norman Fischer.

I don't care why people pick up cookbooks. I'm much more interested in why they put them down.

It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

Learn more, know less.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD P. FEYNMAN, Nobel Prize–winning physicist

usar el sufrimiento para encontrar claridad. Si se analiza el sufrimiento en lugar de ignorarlo,

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." –Mae West

There's the instant, unconscious, automatic thinking and then there's the slower, conscious, rational, deliberate thinking.

Tracking anything is better than tracking nothing. If you are very overweight, very weak, very inflexible, or very anything negative, tracking even a mediocre variable will help you develop awareness that leads to the right behavioral changes. This underscores an encouraging lesson: you don't have to get it all right. You just have to be crystal clear on a few concepts.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."—Henry David Thoreau

Remember Who You Are

The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

Boner or No Boner? "Men, if you wake up and you don't have a boner, there's a problem. Yes or no? One or zero? Boner, no boner?

Live the questions so that, one day, you will live yourself into the answers.

3. Take One Breath a Day

Memento mori—remember that you're going to die. It's a great way to remember to live.

TF: There is a big difference between understanding something (what you want in a physician) and simply knowing its name or labeling it.

Be the silence that listens." –Tara Brach

Avoid compulsively making things worse.

Cuanto más deprisa te mueves, más lento pasa el tiempo y más vives.

Always ask: What am I missing? And listen to the answer.

Don't believe everything you think." –BJ Miller, MD