Thomas Vodrazka

“imagine that every thought that’s arising in your mind is coming from the person next to you.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“when you can’t focus on your breath because thoughts keep intruding. But if you’re paying close attention to this “failure” to meditate, then, of course, it isn’t a failure to meditate—because paying attention to whatever is happening is mindfulness meditation.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“Reason has its effect not by directly pushing back against a feeling but by fortifying the feeling that does do the pushing back.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“Is it, perhaps, the module that dredged up the memory of that article about the long-term benefits of antioxidants? It just thought the long-term module might find that article interesting?”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment