Quotes from Mark Williams

strained time-ridden faces, distracted from distraction by distraction.

are you driven by the daily routines that force you to live in your head rather than in your life?

Meditation is a simple practice that gains its power from repetition. It's only through this that we can become aware of the repeating patterns in our own minds.

But what if there is nothing "wrong" with you at all?

there isn't necessarily a connection between how much you are enjoying the practice and its longer-term benefits.

To be mindful means to be back in touch with your senses, so you can see, hear, touch, smell and taste things

The breath breathes itself. If it was up to us to remember to breathe, we'd have forgotten long ago. So tuning into the breath can be an important antidote to the natural tendency toward believing that we have to be in control.

Our minds have a bottleneck in the so-called "working memory" that allows us to keep only a few simple things in them at any one time.

Meditation is not a religion. Mindfulness is simply a method of mental training.

You cannot force the mind. And if you try to, you won't like what comes of it.

gravitational pull" of depression by reminding you in key ways of what science has now shown: it is actually okay to

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951

bosses were all vying with each other by working later and later. It was clear that exchanging emails late at night made her colleagues and bosses feel important.

practice cultivating a sense of completeness