The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.
— William James, MD (philosopher, psychologist, physician)
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
— Arianna Huffington
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
— Viktor Frankl, MD
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
— Dan Millman
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
— Anne Lamott
Mindfulness isn’t difficult. What’s difficult is to remember to be mindful.
— John Teasdale, PhD (co-developer of MBCT)
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
– Søren Kierkegaard
If you don’t have three minutes to meditate, you need three hours.
(Referring to the problem that people who say that they are too busy to meditate are probably the ones who most need it!)
– Tim Ferriss
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
– Origin unclear (source)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
– Henry David Thoreau
Note: This is the correct quotation (source)
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