Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness [ePub edition]

Do less than you can:

happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something you allow. Happiness is just being.

open your eyes slightly, look slightly downward, and gaze at nothing in particular.

Meta-attention is attention of attention, the ability to pay attention to attention itself. Huh? Simply put, meta-attention is the ability to know that your attention has wandered away.

“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

“Meditation is an indulgence.”

how do you sustain your practice up to the point it becomes so compelling that it is self-sustaining?

Have a buddy:

Every time you create an intention, you are subtly forming or reinforcing a mental habit.