being present
on being in the moment
Stuart Evans and
being present
The more attention we pay to the moment, the simpler it becomes. Because you are no longer juggling endless loops of thought at once. You’re exclusively focused on the precious moment you are in. And in doing so: you expand into it. In focusing your attention on one point—precisely where you are—you channel your infinite attention directly into it,
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And to become skilled at nondoing is quite as difficult as becoming skilled at doing. But then after you acquire both skills, skills at doing and skills at nondoing, you find that if you're stuck in traffic, it doesn't create frustration. You just swing into your nondoing life. If your car won't go forward, you just sit in your car and you build yo
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Less fomo, more jomo
Some ppl really ruin their lives trying to experience third person feelings in the first person.” Feelings observed are distinct from feelings felt. When we watch two people snuggle into bed in an advertisement for sheets, it looks wonderful, but snuggling in bed ourselves feels wonderful in a completely different way. This gap between our observat... See more
Our brains were made for nexting
“When researchers count the items that float along in the average person’s stream of consciousness, they find that about 12 percent of our daily thoughts are about the future.”
In other words, the average person spends 1 out of every 8 hours thinking about the next thing.
From Jane Ratcliffe interview with Andrea Gibson:
When you hit the state of being very present, being very in the now, can you describe that experience in a tactile way? What’s happening in your body? What's happening in your mind?
What it feels like for me is a swell of pure happiness that I am aware is everybody's birthright. I heard something rece
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps... See more