carry yourself lightly
The truth is, trying to force yourself to change by sheer will-power seldom produces lasting results. The other way to change the direction of your boat is to adjust the automatic pilot. Now, the “automatic pilot” in your life is your thoughts. Remember the question I asked in chapter 1? How did you finish the sentence “It’s just like me to be ____
... See moreRick Warren • God's Power to Change Your Life (Living with Purpose)
There comes a moment in life, often in the quietest of hours, when one realizes that the world will continue on its wayward course, indifferent to our desires or frustrations. And it is then, perhaps, that a subtle truth begins to emerge: the only thing we truly possess, the only thing we might, with enough care, exert some mastery over, is our min... See more
Bill Wear • The Quiet Art of Attention
by attending to any of these deliberately selected targets, or even making a conscious decision to “veg out” for a spell, you would have had a far better experience than many of us have much of the time, captured by whatever flotsam and jetsam happens to wash up on our mental shores. In short, to enjoy the kind of experience you want rather than en
... See moreWinifred Gallagher • Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
What it is, as far as I can see, is the capital-T Truth, with a whole lot of rhetorical niceties stripped away. None of this stuf
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