Цитаты из книги Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes. ATTRIB. MARCEL PROUST, 1871–1922

Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.

In many subtle ways, we find that we cannot forgive ourselves for things we have done or failed to do in the past. We carry around the dead weight of past failures, unfinished business, relationship difficulties, unresolved arguments, unfulfilled ambitions for ourselves and others. It may not be as traumatic an event as…

Acceptance takes us off the hair trigger, so that we’re less likely to make a knee-jerk reaction. It allows us to become fully aware of difficulties, with all of their painful nuances, and to respond to them in the most skillful way possible. It gives us more time and space to respond. And often, we may discover, the…

We think that the situation itself aroused our feelings and emotions when, in fact, it was our interpretation of the scene that did this. It’s as if the world were a silent film on which we write our own commentary. But the commentary, with its explanations of what is going on, happens so fast that we take it to be part…

As a result, events seen in the mind’s eye can end up differing wildly from person to person and from any objective “reality”: we don’t see the world as it is, but as we are. We are constantly making guesses about the world—and we’re barely conscious of it.

Remember the “Doing” mode of mind—the mode that never seems to let you off the hook—that gets you stuck in relentless and frantic busyness? If you look back to p. 28, you’ll be reminded of the characteristics of “Doing” mode. They include judging everything, comparing the way things are with the way you want them to be…

In the Body Scan you are asking your attention to focus for longer periods than usual on something that you usually ignore—your body. So if you become restless or bored, you can welcome these feelings because they are providing the very “resistance training” you need to enhance your concentration and awareness. If it does…

We can easily spend so much time “in our head” that we almost forget we have a body at all. We can spend ages planning, remembering, analyzing, judging, brooding and comparing. None of these things is “wrong” in itself, but they can easily end up undermining our physical and mental well-being. We forget about our bodies…

When you practice, and your mind wanders, you may discover something of profound importance. You begin to “see” your thought stream in action. Like any stream, you will start to see all its bubblings and gurglings. For the briefest of moments, all of the thoughts, feelings and memories that flow incessantly across your…