“The dream of my life Is to lie down by a slow river And stare at the light in the trees – To learn something by being nothing A little while but the rich Lens of attention.” Mary Oliver
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“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” Alan Watts
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“Only that day dawns to which we are awake“ Henry David Thoreau
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“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” Mother Teresa
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“To be patient is simply to be completely open to each moment, accepting it in its fullness, knowing that, like the butterfly, things can only unfold in their own time.“ Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Mindfulness Changes Pain
I read an interesting passage in ‘Mindfulness’, Ellen Langer’s insightful book on social psychology. “Patients are often certain that pain is inevitable in a hospital. Caught in such a mindset, they assume that, without the help of medication, pain cannot be controlled. In our experiment, we tried to learn whether people could control their experience…