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.

Meditation eventually reveals our ability of getting pleasure from giving our undivided attention to our pain.

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

The mind is a drama queen that gets too embarrassed to continue acting up, after only a few seconds of getting our undivided attention.

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.