Quotes on Mindfulness

[Daniel E.]

“In the beginning was the Topos. Before – long before – the advent of the Logos, in the chiaroscuro realm of primitive life, lived experience already possessed its internal rationality; this experience was producing long before thought space, and spatial thought, began reproducing the projection, explosion, image and orientation of the body.”

― Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

 

[Daniel E.]

What the caves are trying to tell us

Whatever they once said to their authors, they scream their message of no message across the millennia to us now.

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"The values of contemporary capitalism are drawn out into a suffocating eternity: it was always like this, and it always will be; the Flintstones and the Jetsons were, after all, basically the same people. But meanwhile those strange shapes and patterns on the cave walls still glimmer, beckoning us in — if we knew how to understand them — to a world impossibly different to our own."

~ Sam Kriss

 

[Daniel E.]

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

 

[Daniel E.]

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

 

[Daniel E.]

“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...”

“Sometimes we act in order not to see.”

“Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem.”

― James Hillman

 

[Daniel E.]

On Meditation and the Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist in Conversation

An excerpt from "Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience."

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

“True meditation is not just taking a break. It is not simply closing one’s eyes to the problem for a while. Meditation goes to the root of the problem.”

 

[Daniel E.]

“But what we are is what our ancestors did. How they survived. We are the memories we don't remember..."

― Tommy Orange, There There

 

[Daniel E.]

 

[Daniel E.]

 

[Daniel E.]

“In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

 

[Daniel E.]

 

[Daniel E.]

"You can never get enough of what you don't need."

~ unknown

 

[Daniel E.]

"It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now."

~ Shelly Crane

 

[Daniel E.]

“To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”

― Jeanette Winterson

 

[Daniel E.]

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Daniel E.]

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

— Mary Oliver

 

[David Baxter PhD]

That's an odd quote but it's true on many levels.

 

[Daniel E.]

That's an odd quote

More to the point:

"WAKE UP SHEEPLE." ~ Anonymous

 

[Daniel E.]

What the Anti-work Discourse Gets Wrong

Tech companies are offering spiritual care to make employees more productive, and it’s likely a sign of what’s to come in other industries.

www.theatlantic.com

“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism … Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”

~ David Foster Wallace

 

[Daniel E.]

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”

“Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.” [reminds me of waking up from anesthesia ]

~ Ann Patchett ("An American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto.")