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"Bliss-a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious-lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you've never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it's like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom."
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"Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower."
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"In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover it."
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"Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions."
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"Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment."
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"Mindfulness is the art of cosmic collaboration."
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"If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost."
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"Every morning I drink a glass of water to be humble and simple like water."
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"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."
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"Time, place, and space for all things, but spending [the] majority of one's time playing in outer places, and far less time exploring inner space, is perhaps the worst form of neglect. Don't play yourself; the real you awaits."
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"Create gaps between stimulus and reaction and the gap will show you the path."
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"Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it."
Struggle
"You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montclair lip-read. Kids today... you kids today somehow don't know how to feel, much less love, to say nothing of respect. We're just bodies to you. We're just bodies and shoulders and scarred knees and big bellies and empty wallets and flasks to you. I'm not saying something cliché like you take us for granted so much as I'm saying you cannot... imagine our absence. We're so present it's ceased to mean. We're environmental. Furniture of the world."
Family
"In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds himself floating in. And when I teach school now I always teach Crane's horrific "The Open Boat," and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I've always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls."
Fear
"It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it."
Wisdom
"You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal."
Creativity
"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
Talk
"What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration."
Creativity
"Its emotional character is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency -sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying- are not just unpleasant but literally horrible."
Emotion
"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
God
"Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you."
Society
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