Rand Duren

“Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, 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.”
― Patrick Ness, 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.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 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,”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness