Quotes About Distraction

As in mindfulness practice, each moment of practicing awakened awareness offers a choice-point: Do I allow myself to become distracted and get seduced back into the drama? Or do I choose the openness, clarity, disidentification, and freedom that I discovered but keep forgetting?

As in mindfulness practice, each moment of practicing awakened awareness offers s choice-point: Do I allow myself to become distracted and get seduced back into the drama? Or do I choose the openness, clarity, disidentification, and freedom that I discovered but keep forgetting?

Meditation increases awareness and sensitivity; as such, it can be an antidote to numbness and distraction.

Buddhists like to compare the mind to a monkey—constantly chattering and hopping about from branch to branch, topic to topic.

If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

When people bore me, I close my eyes and try to remember the order the Seven Dwarfs marched in. But it's not always the dwarfs I think about. Sometimes aI try to list all of the Canadian provinces.

I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

To add to truth distracts from it.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.

People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth.

If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

An invisible gas clouds his thoughts, exhaust from a bus left with its engine running in the middle of his brain.

Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.