Kate Pickert > Quotes

“The ability to focus for a few minutes on a single raisin isn’t silly if the skills it requires are the keys to surviving and succeeding in the 21st century. REWIRING YOUR BRAIN”
― Kate Pickert, The Art of Being Mindful

“In a time when no one seems to have enough time, our devices allow us to be many places at once—but at the cost of being unable to fully inhabit the place where we actually want to be.”
― Kate Pickert, The Art of Being Mindful

“Though meditation is considered an essential means to achieving mindfulness, the ultimate goal is simply to give your attention fully to what you’re doing.”
― Kate Pickert, The Art of Being Mindful

“Jon Kabat-Zinn, the father of MBSR, doesn’t look like the kind of person to be selling meditation and mindfulness to America’s fast-paced, stressed-out masses. When I met him at a mindfulness conference in April, he was dressed in corduroys, a button-down shirt and a blazer, with wire-rimmed glasses and a healthy head of thick gray hair. He looked more like the professor he trained to become than the mindfulness guru he is.”
― Kate Pickert, The Art of Being Mindful

“our devices allow us to be many places at once—but at the cost of being unable to fully inhabit the place where we actually want to be. Mindfulness”
― Kate Pickert, The Art of Being Mindful