#mindfulness

"Simply just BE GRATEFUL what you have today, there is millions who'are crying for the place where you are today"

"Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world."

"Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)"

"When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life."

"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."

"Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind."

"Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality."

"Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present."

"Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air,new lights and new truths to enter."

"Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another."

"Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow."

"Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)"

"The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand."

"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."

"Treat everyone you meet as if they were you."

"Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world."

"If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives."

"Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power."

"Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now."