#pausing

Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal. . . . The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life. . . . We may pause in the midst of meditation to let go of thoughts and reawaken our attention to the breath. We may pause by stepping out of daily life to go on a retreat or to spend time in nature or to take a sabbatical. . . . You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing "no thing," and simply notice what you are experiencing. ↗

— Tara Brach

#pausing #life

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. ↗

— Clarence Day

#curiosity #enjoy #facts #far #mainspring

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. ↗

— Elizabeth Kenny

#anywhere #enough #enter #exit #long

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#giving #half #join #minute #never

She imagined she could pull Time like taffy, stretching it longer and longer between her hands until the finest point had been reached, the point just before breaking, and she could live there. A point at the center of time with no going forward, no going back. Clasped in this way, without speaking, walking into no discernible ending, she could almost believe they tread on time. ↗

— Sarah Blake

#stopping-time #ww-ii #imagination

The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying. ↗

— Michael Musto

#consider #difference #even #fact #fame

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#beneath #bird #boughs #feels #flight

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#craving #instinctual #mindful #pausing #potential