Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient…only the universe rearranging itself.
Remember, now is the only time you have for anything. You have to accept yourself as you are before you can really change. Your choosing to do so becomes an act of self-compassion and intelligence. Wh...
Por el mismo motivo, cada vez que nos ensimismamos, no nos damos cuenta de las cosas o nos sentimos ansiosos, ejercitamos y reforzamos la capacidad de ensimismarnos, de tornarnos inconscientes y de es...
Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As
One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulne...
Many great minds have been preoccupied with the notion of wholeness and how to realize it in one’s own life. Carl Jung, the great Swiss psychiatrist, held the meditative traditions of Asia in very hig...
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
Los términos medicina y meditación proceden de la misma raíz latina mederi, que significa curar. La raíz indoeuropea profunda de mederi transmite, además, el significado esencial de medir pero, en est...
Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it is the essence of mindfulness practice.
It is healing simply to be heard, to be met, to be seen, to be known.
In this regard, cultivating mindfulness is not unlike the process of eating. It would be absurd to propose that someone else eat for you. And when you go to a restaurant, you don’t eat the menu, mista...
If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.
Fui a vivir al bosque porque quería vivir despierto, enfrentarme tan sólo a los hechos esenciales de la vida y aprender lo necesario para no verme obligado, cuando estuviera postrado en mi lecho de mu...
Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking.
Attention leads to connection, connection to regulation, regulation to order, and order to ease (as opposed to dis-ease), or, more colloquially, to health.
Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the in...
Now. When
Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
Cannot be imposed, legislated, or decreed. They can only be cultivated, and
Whether we are basically healthy at the moment or have a terminal illness, none of us knows how long we have to live. Life only unfolds in moments. The healing power of mindfulness lies in living each...