I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.
Interpretation
Being fully present means giving your undivided attention to the person you are with.
This quote emphasizes the importance of mindfulness in our interactions, advocating for genuine connection with others by being emotionally and mentally present. It highlights how our attention can significantly enrich relationships and create meaningful moments, rather than being distracted by worries or other commitments.
In practice
In a speech about developing deeper connections, you might say, 'As Morrie Schwartz wisely stated, I believe in being fully present.'
People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims....and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? I'm almost......drawn to them.
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
If I body-shame a woman, it is more a reflection of me being critical of my body, me not being able to keep up to certain standards I have, and so making sure that the women around me feel the same way.
I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own publications and organizations. Our problems, our experiences as women are profoundly unique as compared to the other half of the human race.
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