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Be Here Now
Be Here Now, a guide to meditation and the wonders of psychedelic drugs by Baba Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert. “It was profound,” Jobs said. “It transformed me and many of my friends.”
from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Ask yourself what is your problem right now. Not last year or next week? Right now in this moment.
Be here now
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Want to find inner peace? Control your emotions, be here now.
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You can't think your way out of overthinking.
Be here now
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- For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesn’t work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment” i... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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- For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesn’t work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment” i... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Alex Wittenberg and added