Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I like being irritating. ”

Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. ”

The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale. ”

We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness. ”

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality. ”

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine. ”

Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being. ”

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means. ”

It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of PR for the science. ”

Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it. ”