This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
“Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.”
― Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
― Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
“I do know is that if you give a human being a chance to be stupid and violent, then they’re going to take it, every time. No matter where they are.”
― More Than This
― More Than This
“In times of war, men’s control of the armed forces has made them the masters of civilian society, too. They then used their control of civilian society to fight more and more wars, and the greater the number of wars, the greater men’s control of society. This feedback loop explains both the ubiquity of war and the ubiquity of patriarchy.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“No matter what people are doing, they are much less happy when their minds are wandering than when their minds are focused,”
― Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
― Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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