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.
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 practice incorporating questions about your own way into your meditation practice, you will find that it is very effective in bringing you back to the present moment. You might try sitting with...
If you believe in love, do you manifest it or just talk a lot? If you believe in compassion, in non-harming, in kindness, in wisdom, in generosity, in calmness, in solitude, in non-doing, in being eve...
If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles...
Here is Eliot, again from Burnt Norton: Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time …
Guess what? When it comes right down to it, wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that’s what you’ve wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that’s what’s on your mi...
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...
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. MBSR,
Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, … W. B. YEATS, Sailing to Byzantium
We scarcely have time for being anymore, or even for catching our breath, literally and metaphorically—to say nothing of time for knowing what we are doing as we are doing it, and why.
We all tend to fill up our days with things that just have to be done and then run around desperately trying to do them all, while in the process not really enjoying much of the doing because we are t...
We all come into and go out of this world as passing gatherings of structured energy.
Now. When
As long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.
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...