Quotes About Mindfulness

Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer.

He just sits there. I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one forehead at a time. His name is supposedly Lyle.

David Foster Wallace

You can be at certain parties and not really be there.

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me. Instead of paying attention to what's going on inside me.

What if I told you she could because she's had this happen and she totally knows it's possible to be just a thing but just like Victor Frankl that every minute from then on minute by minute if you want you can choose to be more if you want, you can choose to be a human being and have it mean something? Then what would you say?

boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.

You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all.

this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Some answer or trick of the will: the ability not to think about it. What if everyone knew this trick but Claude Sylvanshine?

It may, after all, be alright to do something scary without thinking, but not when the scariness is the not thinking itself.

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work.

lo más peligroso que tiene la educación académica, por lo menos en mi caso, es que habilita mi tendencia a intelectualizar las cosas en exceso, a perderme en el pensamiento abstracto en lugar de limitarme a prestar atención a lo que está pasando delante de mí. Y en lugar de prestar atención a lo que está pasando dentro de mí.

La vostra preoccupazione per ciò che gli altri pensano di voi scompare una volta che capite quanto di rado pensano a voi.

David Foster Wallace

teach you how to accept your nonacceptance