The price of aliveness is letting go of distraction, avoidance, numbness, and checking out of life
The price of aliveness is letting go of distraction, avoidance, numbness, and checking out of life
Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention. At the end of your life, looking back, whatever compelled your attention from moment to moment is simply what your life will have been. So when you pay attention to something you don’t especiall
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Self-awareness is a transcendence. An abandonment of ego. A letting go.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Kierkegaard said that the greatest hazard of all is losing oneself — dangerous because it occurs so quietly. To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been wr... See more
Most other resources on which we rely as individuals—such as food, money, and electricity—are things that facilitate life, and in some cases it’s possible to live without them, at least for a while. Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attent... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
By paying attention we let ourselves be touched by life, and our hearts naturally become more open and engaged.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
