Up: [[Savour]] > [!Orbit] Thich Nhat Hahn in *How to Walk* > Mindfulness is the practice of deeply touching every moment of daily life. (p.19) > [!Orbit] Christina Feldman Willem Kuyken in *Mindfulness* > (Mindfulness requires) deploying attention like a flashlight beam, *choosing* where to shine the light and what to leave in darkness. (p.14) > [!Orbit] Thich Nhat Hahn > The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. > [!Orbit] Thich Nhat Hahn > Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole world revolves — slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. > [!Orbit] Thich Nhat Hahn > We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. > [!Orbit] Jon Kabat-Zinn > Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience. > [!Orbit] Me! > We can consciously control the beam of our attention, altering its width and brightness. > Mindfulness is the vehicle that allows intention to become focus. > [!Orbit] [[Abigail Thomas]] in a Substack post > I figure I have a choice. I can worry myself into the ground. That’s one. Or I can think of my failing memory as an achievement. I am finally living in the moment. > [!Orbit] Marion Milner in *A Life of One’s Own* > Experiencing the present with the whole of my body instead of with the pinpoint of my intellect led to all sorts of new knowledge and new [[contentment]]. I began to guess what it might mean to live from the heart instead of the head, and I began to feel movements of the heart which told me more surely what I wanted than any making of lists. (p. 138)