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
It means paying attention to the present moment, with awareness of thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations that arrive, without judgement or distraction.
Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
describe attention as a ‘resource’ is to subtly misconstrue its centrality in our lives. 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
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
give attention to your behavior, to your reactions, moods, thoughts, emotions, fears, and desires as they occur in the present. There’s the past in you.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
the more I pay attention to my life and the messages from the edges, the more I’m able to choose a way of life that doesn’t demand constant vigilance and preparedness.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle.