This quote comes after I've been reading books about being mindful, slowing down to pause and consider what's happening in a given moment. Slowing down gives us a chance to see a situation as it is, not from habituated reactions and theatrical (actor-like) ideas.April 26, 2005
(www.jackzen.com)
Not so fast there ...
We want instant food, instant knowledge, instant networks, instant growth, instant trust, instant innovation, instant transformation, instant sustainability.
What does it take to realize that depth is the casualty of speed?
When we slow down and see things truly, deeply, "mindfully", we stop the movie which is playing in our mind about that situation. Disappointment comes when we have a different impression of what's occuring - when we play our "movie" alongside reality. But what if we can see reality? What if we are fully present to what's occurring, and others are with us, intimately, doing the same thing?
It takes longer to see mindfully, to pause and reflect, to ask and to understand, to notice, than to barrel through our "movie" of what's occurring. .. yet, how many lives would be saved if addicts stopped pushing aside reality and attended to problems? If workaholics just came home from work, and hugged their families?
If we know how badly we feel after eating fast ("junk") food, why don't we remember what our spirits and lives feel the same way after living fast (junk) moments??
