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Every Morning, I Go Off To A Small Studio Behind My House To Write. I Try To Ignore All Email And Phone Calls Until Lunchtime. Then I Launch Into The Sometimes Frantic Busy-ness Of A Tightly Scheduled Day.

Feelings Are Self-justifying, With A Set Of Perceptions And "proofs" All Their Own.

If You Are Doing Mindfulness Meditation, You Are Doing It With Your Ability To Attend To The Moment.

Societies Can Be Sunk By The Weight Of Buried Ugliness.

Simple Inattention Kills Empathy, Let Alone Compassion. So The First Step In Compassion Is To Notice The Other's Need. It All Begins With The Simple Act Of Attention.