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“In many other spheres, including social media, we too often present an artificial, “Botoxed” version of ourselves: an image not of who we are but of how we would like to be perceived by others. “What we have with the internet is sort of a Botox for the masses,” Peter said. “We have just lost this capacity to be real, which is fundamentally what makes us human, and what makes us feel connected to each other.”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“As your mindfulness develops, your resentment of change, your dislike of unpleasant
experiences, your greed for pleasant experiences and the notion of self hood will be
replaced by the deeper insight into impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.
This knowledge of reality in your experience helps you to foster a more calm, peaceful
and mature attitude towards your life. You will see what you thought in the past to be
permanent is changing with such an inconceivable rapidity that even your mind cannot
keep up with these changes. Somehow you will be able to notice many of the changes.
You will see the subtlety of impermanence and the subtlety of selflessness. This insight
will show you the way to peace, happiness and give you the wisdom to handle your daily
problems in life.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

“Concentration is the lens. It produces the burning intensity necessary to see into the deeper reaches of the mind. Mindfulness selects the object hat the lens will focus on and looks through the lens to see what is there.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

“Too much
awareness without calm to balance it will result in a wildly over-sensitized state similar to
abusing LSD. Too much concentration without a balancing ratio of awareness will result
in the 'Stone Buddha' syndrome. The meditator gets so tranquilized that he sits there like
a rock. Both of these are to be avoided.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English