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“mindfulness, a sense of clear seeing with respect and compassion for what it is we see. This is what basic practice shows us. But mindfulness doesn’t stop with formal meditation. It helps us relate with all the details of our lives. It helps us see and hear and smell, without closing our eyes or our ears or our noses. It’s a lifetime’s journey to relate honestly to the immediacy of our experience and to respect ourselves enough not to judge it. As”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“day and all night. How to apply mouth tape, or “sleep tape” as it’s also called, is a matter of personal preference, and everyone I talked to had their own technique. Burhenne liked to place a small piece horizontally over the lips; Kearney preferred a fat strip over the entire mouth. The internet was filled with suggestions. One guy used eight pieces of inch-wide tape to create a sort of tape goatee. Another used duct tape. A woman suggested taping the entire lower half of the face. To me, these methods are ridiculous and excessive. Looking for an easier way, over the last few days I conducted my own experiments with blue painter’s tape, which smelled weird, and Scotch tape, which crinkled. Band-Aids were too sticky. Eventually I realized that all I or anyone really needed was a postage-stamp-size piece of tape at”
― James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art