Digital Detox Quotes

“Things changed when my phone outsmarted me. Once Facebook had a permanent place in my pocket, it became a permanent portal—able to transport me away from my family. Even if we were physically in the same room, I wasn’t necessarily there with them. Facebook was no longer simply a naptime vacation but an all-day form of escapism.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“When I turn to my phone to cope
with stress, I don’t return to my family
more able to handle the stress. When
I sneak away to social media, I don’t
return to my husband and children more socially available. When I put my face in Facebook, rather than the Good Book, I don’t find the help I need when it’s time to face my family again.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“For most of the population these days, the only thing that ever dances is a pair of thumbs texting. No wonder people are aging so fast on the Ship of Fools sailing Titanic-like through today into no tomorrow.

As people’s souls shrink through lack of movement, their connective tissue hardens and their bones turn brittle. This isn’t metaphoric. This is the mind-body-spirit connection on full display, for anyone who cares to contemplate its cause and effects, in real time.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“In today’s mesmerizing digital landscape, our attention is madly sought after. Algorithms are ingeniously designed to keep us hooked like addicts by feeding us mainlines tailored to hold us captive—in mind and perhaps eventually even in body.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If you habitually look for love and companionship online, when the love of God is found in the companionship of Christ, then social media isn’t good for you. Perhaps you need a short forty-day break to connect with God. Disconnecting from that which is less good frees you up to connect with the One who is most good. With His help, when this fast is over you might be able to set boundaries around your online relationships that allow you to enjoy those good gifts in light of the good Gift-Giver. But if you can’t, then don’t reengage online. All things may be allowed, but if they don’t allow you to stay focused on the satisfying goodness of God, then they aren’t good for you.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“It's possible that the people you follow online have come between you and the One who said, “Follow Me.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“The digital world sells you infinite freedom, but true freedom lies in knowing when to log off, walk outside, and plant something real.”
― Lawrence Nault

“While our smart devices offer us an easy way to nd anything in the world, they can also be a distraction from the things that can’t be found with a Google search.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“Each time I step back from the clutter of the online world, I’m amazed how much time is freed up to declutter my real world.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

“le distrazioni digitali di bassa qualità rivestono un ruolo importante nella vita delle persone, più di quanto queste immaginino”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism

“Ah, the sweet bliss of jomo – the Joy Of Missing Out! It's like a warm hug from your couch, a high-five to solitude, and a victory dance for staying in your own lane. While the world hustles and bustles, you're happily nestled in your cocoon of contentment, savoring the simple pleasures of quiet nights, leisurely mornings, and uninterrupted me-time. So embrace the JOMO vibe, my friend. The thrill of missing out, and the sheer delight of being perfectly, wonderfully, unapologetically you.”
― Life is Positive

“Decluttering your digital space is a necessary step for a fresh start.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive, Unfinished Chapters: A Compass for Life's Turning Points

“Are apps here to make life simpler or more complicated? Are you working remotely or being worked remotely? Who’s in control here—you or forces seemingly beyond your control?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Contrary to the indoctrinated notion that reducing existence to the essentials is for half-wits and losers in this golden age of technological ‘progress,’ simplicity isn’t simplistic—or at least it doesn’t have to be.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“You know you’ve lost your simplicity when you’ve found your busy-ness.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Screens offer escape — but they also rob us of the very discomfort that builds strength.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience

“Boredom is not the enemy of childhood. It’s the birthplace of imagination, persistence, and quiet strength.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience

“True strength isn’t in never crying. It’s in learning how to name the storm inside and stay present through it.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience

“Children mirror our habits. They don’t learn balance from lectures—but from watching us choose it.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience

“Screens numb discomfort. Real growth happens when we sit with it, name it, and learn to breathe through.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience

“A tree doesn’t post its blossoms. A river doesn’t explain its course. Nature teaches us that presence is enough.”
― Lawrence Nault

“Doomscrolling, binge-watching, and constant notifications can drain us just as much as hoarding physical objects.”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“To think that we can or should all ‘go Amish’ and stick our heads in the sand with regard to technology is wishful thinking, but so too is the black-pilled fantasy that we can’t and shouldn’t use technology in our own projects and creations.

In the end technology is just a contemporary iteration of Prometheus’s fire. It can burn, yes, and its smoke can blind our eyes.

But it can also revolutionize our creativity and aid those of us employing it for higher than material purposes to shine a light through the shadows for anyone capable of seeing and following our freedom beacon.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“In a world where AI can replicate intelligence, attention is the last frontier of humanity. Whoever controls your attention controls your reality. And whoever masters their attention controls their evolution.”
― Anshum ., DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness

“Deprogramming the Digital Self teaches the skill every professional will need in the next decade -Conscious Navigation.”
― Anshum ., DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness

“It can’t be denied that most people today are voluntarily plugged into the Matrix—except instead of being jacked in and hardwired, they keep mindlessly taking hits on the virtual crack pipe of Instagram, TikTok, Meta, etc.

The most disturbing part of this web junkie scenario is that the overwhelming majority have absolutely no idea to what extent their thoughts and opinions are being mimetically manipulated, day after day, by the technology they take for granted.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Latency is all about socialisation, making friends, and developing independence; if children are glued to screens, they are at risk of becoming socially isolated.”
― BJ Beatty, Unplugged Parenting: How to Reconnect with Your Teen and Break Screen Addiction Without Power Struggles, Punishment, or Losing Your Mind

“We don’t need more algorithms telling us what we want. We need more time to feel what we’ve forgotten.”
― Lawrence Nault

“We need to recognize that social media is far more than just a harmless distraction or handy tool.

Rather, it has been brilliantly architected as a comprehensive net or web for the mind that can be used to alter our thoughts and behaviors, and from there redirect the creative focus of our attention, usually without our even realizing it.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“In a world saturated with freakish information and algorithmic wackiness, we need to get a little weird ourselves to survive … and, if we play our cards right, thrive.

To do so we must summon the courage of our inner hero to question everything, to think for ourselves, to look for answers outside the box, to resist the urge to conform to the digital hive mind.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality