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Concentrate on whatever you’re doing. Life is full of menial tasks, which means it is full of opportunity. You can transform any task from an act of distracted second nature into an active meditation—the same awareness you’d employ if you were doing it for the first time. And you will discover that being fully attentive is being fully alive.
The mind is closed and rigid, fixated on its desires; it manipulates all perceptions to fit into the paradigm it has created. Awareness, on the other hand, is open and fluid and offers a path to what is real.
had read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse many times and thought now of Siddhartha’s words: “Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” The enlightened are distinguished from the rest of us not by the work they do but by the manner in which they do their work.
after every home run. When I heard about Scully’s comment,
Becoming attached to success is just as dangerous as becoming attached to failure.
Pride serves as a warning that we are connecting to our egos, which we should only ever do with full awareness. This
It takes discipline to keep your eyes on process rather than on results.
quote from Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, “The world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided … never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.”
I learned acceptance of what is. A place of no judgment, no goals … the place where actual life happens. And that is a much better place to be.
The best approach to the game of baseball is just to play it; the same is true of life. The most fulfilled people are the ones who are always playing, the ones who don’t take life too seriously.
