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Mindfulness Can Improve Your Attention and Health

By Amishi Jha — 2013

A focus on the present, dubbed “mindfulness,” can make you happier and healthier. Training to deepen your immersion in the moment works by improving attention

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There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time—for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

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For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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