Between Two Thoughts
There is a gap. It is not empty, and it is not mystical. It is simply where you are when nothing is being said.
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Attention
The faculty everything else depends on.
The Futility of Forced Silence
Silence cannot be forced. It flowers when the mind is understood — which is why most meditation practice quietly becomes another form of noise.
You Are Not Your Thoughts
A sentence everyone repeats and almost nobody has tested. Testing it takes about four minutes and changes what the phrase means.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Attention Is the Whole of It
If there is a single lever in inner life, it is attention. Everything called practice is some arrangement for placing it deliberately.
The Mind That Cannot Be Alone
A mind that cannot sit in an empty room is not restless. It is avoiding something, and the avoidance has become continuous.