tag > Mindful
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"Chill out. Do less. Enjoy more." should be the mantra of the next 100 years globally.
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"Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment." - Dōgen
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Edmund Jacobson pioneered the idea of relaxing and doing nothing—to be more productive
“It might be naive to say we think with our muscles,” he said, “but it would be inaccurate to say we think without them.” - Edmund Jacobson
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“The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience” -
“War and Peace” (1869)
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"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." — Bruce Lee
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"Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there." — Lao Tzu
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How one hour of slow breathing changed my life - by James Nestor (The Guardian)
For me, the perfect breath is this: inhale for about 5.5 seconds, then exhale for 5.5 seconds. That’s 5.5 breaths a minute for a total of about 5.5 litres of air
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It took me years to find out why. Most days, I treat it like a stretch, something I do after a long time sitting or stressing, to bring myself back to normal. By the law of averages, you will take 670m breaths over your lifetime. Maybe you’ve already taken half of those. Maybe you’re on breath 669,000,000. Maybe you’d like to take a few million more.
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Daniel Goleman on Focus: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment
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"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" - Pascal
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‘Spring has the feeling of spring, and autumn has the look of autumn; there is no escaping it. So when you want spring or autumn to be different from what it is, notice that it can only be as it is. Or, when you want to keep spring or autumn as it is, reflect that it has no unchanging nature.’ - Shobogenzo Yuibutsu Yobutsu
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Teaching without words
The softest things of the world
Override the hardest things of the world
That which has no substance
Enters into that which has no openings
From this I know the benefits of non-attached actions
The teaching without words
The benefits of actions without attachment
Are rarely matched in the world- Tao Te Ching, Chapter 43, Derek Lin translation
