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

It is like a solid piece of rock, majestically unmoved by the distraction of the wind.

Every time your attention wanders away from your breath and you bring it back, it is like flexing your biceps—your “muscle” of attention grows a bit stronger.

Open attention is a quality of attention willing to meet any object that arrives at the mind or the senses.

“knowing one’s internal states, preferences, resources and intuitions.”

gently but firmly bring the mind back.

When the mind becomes highly relaxed and alert at the same time, three wonderful qualities of mind naturally emerge: calmness, clarity, and happiness.

self-confidence to be a distinguishing factor separating the best managers from the merely average ones.

“looping,” short for “closing the loop of communication.”

moment-to-moment attention that you keep bringing back,

What do people say about you?