Klaus Tonn

“A teacher of meditation once told the story of a man who wanted nothing to do with the stress of life, so he retreated to a cave to meditate day and night for the rest of his life. But soon he came out again, driven to overwhelming distress by the sound of the dripping of water in his cave. The moral is that, at least to some extent, the stresses will always be there,”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

“The researchers have found, in essence, that our advice to others tends to hinge on the single most important factor, while our own thinking flits among many variables. When we think of our friends, we see the forest. When we think of ourselves, we get stuck in the trees.§”
― Chip Heath, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work