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...
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...
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...
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
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient... only the universe rearranging itself.
As much as I can, I avoid using the word spiritual altogether. I find it neither useful nor necessary nor appropriate in my work at the hospital bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine an...
Paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.
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
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...
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 might have helped us considerably to have been shown, perhaps through some simple exercises in elementary school, that we are not our thoughts, that we can watch them come and go and learn not to c...
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...
In the old days, if a king didn’t like the message he was given, he would sometimes have the messenger killed. This is tantamount to suppressing your symptoms or your feelings because they are unwante...
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 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...