Slowing Down to the Speed of Life Quotes

“speaking, as your level of understanding rises, you will have the experience of deeper feelings such as gratitude, calmness, peace, hope, and joy.”
― Richard Carlson, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How to Create a more Peaceful, Simpler Life from the Inside Out

“While most of us wouldn’t write ourselves a nasty letter, read it, and then feel offended, this is precisely what we do with regard to our thinking. We”
― Richard Carlson, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How to Create a more Peaceful, Simpler Life from the Inside Out

“Often, the answer to a problem or dilemma is not immediately obvious, and we simply don’t know what to do next. As we mentioned earlier, a problem cannot be solved at the same level of thinking in which it was created; we need a shift in our level of understanding. This logic reminds us that if we do not know the answer to a specific problem, recycling the same information over and over usually will not produce a solution. It will, however, keep our minds busy and speeded up. It will create stress. We’ve all had the experience of being stuck in “thought quicksand,” where our mental struggling sucks us deeper into our analytical thinking. This is an example of the misuse of the analytical thought process.”
― Richard Carlson, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How to Create a more Peaceful, Simpler Life from the Inside Out

“Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We”
― Richard Carlson, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How to Create a more Peaceful, Simpler Life from the Inside Out