I’m convinced that it’s going to become a straightforwardly high-status, elite play to renounce phones, social media, and many other aspects of digital culture. In a world of insane information abundance and always-on connection, reclaiming the stillness of your own mind will be akin to flying private.

If I’m right, we’ll see a growing divide betwee

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Digital detox too extreme? How about trying a gentle “hack” to boost your focus and calm your mind?

In Stolen Focus, Johann Hari talks about how social media/entertainment acts like goggles, altering how we see the world. Each platform makes us perceive life differently:

-Facebook Goggles: You see life through nostalgia, filtered perfection, and endl

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

― Anaïs Nin

DT Suzuki. Disciple of a master. Cultivated english and taught at Colombia University. "every day I have moments that make me dance". Beautiful reminder of opportunities moment by moment. Capacity to receive invitations to the dance is strengthened by daily practice with the holy breath in meditation.

There is an endless cycle of the breath and ever present invitations to integratable moments. We become more familiar with what it means to recognize purifying activity of the holy breath.