An untrained mind usually focuses not on what one needs and has but on what one wants but lacks.

Technological fruits such as audiobooks are food for the illusion that we can really do more than one thing at the same time.

Truly paying attention to something or someone makes it or them seem as big as the universe.

To focus is to ignore.

It is impossible to give your best effort without mindfulness.

We show our animal nature by not living for the future, and our human nature by not living in the present.

With our attention we often water either the seed of what we want but do not have, or the tree of what we have but do not want.

Sanity is a never-ending tug of war between oneself, pulling one’s attention towards happiness, and one’s mind, pulling it towards unhappiness.

The internet and social media have turned the average employee’s cell phone into a labour-wasting device.