Quotes About Mindfulness

You could not compute the product of 17 × 24 while making a left turn into dense traffic, and you certainly should not try. You

anything that occupies your working memory reduces your ability to think.

you think with your body, not only with your brain.

Any aspect of life to which attention is directed will loom large in a global evaluation. This is the essence of the focusing illusion, which can be described in a single sentence: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

We cover long distances by taking our time and conduct our mental lives by the law of least effort.

Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort.

the common admonition to "act calm and kind regardless of how you feel" is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and kind.

This is the essence of the focusing illusion, which can be described in a single sentence: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that normally attract attention.

One of the tasks of System 2 is to overcome the impulses of System 1. In other words, System 2 is in charge of self-control.

Observers are less cognitively busy and more open to information than actors.

act calm and kind regardless of how you feel

To get pleasure from eating, for example, you must notice that you are doing it. We found that French and American women spent about the same amount of time eating, but for Frenchwomen, eating was twice as likely to be focal as it was for American women. The Americans were far more prone to combine eating with other activities, and their pleasure from eating was correspondingly diluted.

Much like the electricity meter outside your house or apartment, the pupils offer an index of the current rate at which mental energy is used.

Unfortunately, she tends to say the first thing that comes into her mind. She probably also has trouble delaying gratification. Weak System 2.

Everyone has some awareness of the limited capacity of attention, and our social behaviour makes allowances for these limitations

That was the moment when he grasped that nobody wanted to use their minds. People wanted peace. They wanted to eat and sleep and have other people be nice to them. What they didn't want to do was think.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Tómate más tiempo y abarca menos terreno.» THOMAS MERTON

sixteenth-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. He once quipped, "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life." —MARCUS AURELIUS, ROMAN EMPEROR AND PHILOSOPHER (AD 121–180), STOIC

I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness.

Epicurus said something similar when he wrote, "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Live life in the present. This moment is the only thing that's real. Worrying about the future and lamenting the past only crowds out the beauty of what is happening now.