Jill

“Anything that offers success in our unjust society without trying to change it is not revolutionary — it just helps people cope.”
― Ronald Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality

“Individual happiness seems hollow unless all human beings are free of oppression, poverty, and violence — as well as free to speak and act in the public sphere. This doesn’t mean we have to be miserable in the meantime. We can’t help each other if we don’t help ourselves. But we have to go further than the smiley face rhetoric of commoditized mindfulness. Dissatisfaction and unhappiness are not impediments to revolution; they are its fuel.”
― Ronald Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality

“In struggle one not only fights against something--injustice, oppression--but one must struggle for something equally real but positive. That's the other part of the equation.”
― Stokely Carmichael, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael

“The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek has analyzed this trend with great acuity. As he sees it, mindfulness is “establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism,” by helping people “to fully participate in the capitalist dynamic while retaining the appearance of mental sanity.”
― Ronald Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality