Quotes About Awareness

First, distraction remains a destroyer of depth.

He asks us to treat the minutes of our life as a concrete and valuable substance—arguably the most valuable substance we possess—and to always reckon with how much of this life we trade for the various activities we allow to claim our time.

If you're wearing headphones, or monitoring a text message chain, or, God forbid, narrating the stroll on Instagram—you're not really walking, and therefore you're not going to experience this practice's greatest benefits

First, when you focus only on what your work offers you, it makes you hyperaware of what you don't like about it, leading to chronic unhappiness.

What's making us uncomfortable...is this feeling of losing control - a feeling that instantiates itself in a dozen different ways each day, such as when we tune out with our phone during our child's bath time, or lose our ability to enjoy a nice moment without a frantic urge to document it for a virtual audience.

The day the declutter was over, I raced back to Facebook, to my old blogs, to Discord, gleeful and ready to dive back in—and then, after about thirty minutes of aimless browsing, I kind of looked up and thought … why am I doing this? This is … boring? This isn't bringing me any kind of happiness. It took a declutter for me to notice that these technologies aren't actually adding anything to my life.

management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.

skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.

when you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn't immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task.

your world is the outcome of what you pay attention to,

adopt the habit of pausing before action and asking, "What makes the most sense right now?

Our brains instead construct our worldview based on what we pay attention to. If you focus on a cancer diagnosis, you and your life become unhappy and dark, but if you focus instead on an evening martini, you and your life become more pleasant—even though the circumstances in both scenarios are the same. As Gallagher summarizes: "Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on." In

As Kethledge and Erwin explain, however, solitude is about what's happening in your brain, not the environment around you. Accordingly, they define it to be a subjective state in which your mind is free from input from other minds. You can enjoy solitude in a crowded coffee shop, on a subway car, or, as President Lincoln discovered at his cottage, while sharing your lawn with two companies of Union soldiers, so long as your mind is left to grapple only with its own thoughts.

Just because you cannot avoid this tool altogether doesn't mean you have to cede all authority over its role in your mental landscape

The ability in question is called "attentional control," and it measures the subjects' ability to maintain their focus on essential information.

You must be on your guard for looping, as it can quickly subvert an entire productive meditation session. When you notice it, remark to yourself that you seem to be in a loop, then redirect your attention toward the next step.

moment can feel strangely flat if it exists solely in itself.

We should not, therefore, expect the bottom-line impact of depth-destroying behaviors to be easily detected.

your world is the outcome of what you pay attention to, so consider for a moment the type of mental world constructed when you dedicate significant time to deep endeavors.

In July, Thoreau moved into the cabin where he then lived for the next two years. In the book Walden, he wrote about this experience, famously describing his motivation as follows: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

manifesto titled "A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users' Attention.

When you focus only on what your work offers you, it makes you hyperaware of what you don't like about it, leading to chronic unhappiness.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal

Mientras una parte de lo que percibimos penetra a través de nuestros sentidos a partir del objeto que tenemos ante nosotros, otra parte (y tal vez ésta sea la mayor) surge siempre de nuestra propia mente. William James Principios de psicología