The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

by John Mark Comer

a sustained spiritual life is simply unfeasible for most mortals without these refuges from noise and work to buffer us and remind us who we really are.11

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.13

“If you grow dependent on your smartphone, it becomes a magical device that silently shouts your name at your brain at all times.”17

Because the slot machine is addictive. And those small amounts of money feel inconsequential in the moment. It’s just a few quarters, right? Or five bucks, or twenty. But over time they add up. In the same way, the phone is addictive. And small moments—a text here, a scroll through Instagram there, a quick email scan, dinking around online—it all adds up to an extraordinary amount of time.18

things in perspective, a goldfish has an attention span of nine seconds.20 Yes. That’s right. We’re losing, to goldfish.

I mean, how do we have any kind of spiritual life at all if we can’t pay attention longer than a goldfish?

“To a child, love is spelled T-I-M-E.”

there is zero correlation between hurry and productivity.

Breathe. Come back to the moment. Receive the good as gift. Accept the hard as gift…