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              I am starting a new thread here mainly for purposes of my own catharsis. It is my intention, at least at this point, to make regular contributions. Of course, if anyone else has anything to add, they are more than welcome. If you have any input, please contribute.

              Over a year ago I decided to deal head-on with my self-diagnosed adult attention disorder, (ADD). The inability to stay focused was becoming too stressful. I found myself sitting around watching the clock tick, yet I couldn’t keep “on task” with any project I started. Nothing was getting done and just starting something was becoming depressing.

              The smart thing to do was probably to get professional help, so instead I decided to try to heal myself, at least as a first try. Cognitive therapy and pharmaceuticals (UGH) might be the approved way to go but I decided to try meditation first.

              18 months and countless self-help books later, I still can’t bring myself to a regular, formal meditation program. But, along the way, I discovered informal mindfulness. Yes, I know it is the “Fad” right now. It is hard to navigate modern social trends without “tripping over” somebody extolling the benefits of mindfulness.

              Let me add my voice to the chorus.

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— Alan Watts

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— Haemin Sunim

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— Alan Watts

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— Bernie Glassman

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— S. N. Goenka

"I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such
a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of
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— Jack Kornfield

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— Lin Yutang

I'm going to call this one out as an incomplete thought. I have a long record of spending useless days in a useless manner and then feeling terribly unfulfilled. I know what the meme is trying to say even though it falls short. It is trying to say you have learned to live once you can do this without being driven, hour by hour, by the grinding urge to accomplish something  on your to-do list in every moment; once you can truly let go of the need to be constantly 'doing' so that you are not guilty for being unproductive later. It's still a work in progress for me.

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— Byron Katie

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