It’s a section where Kabat-Zinn points out that we all know it’s wrong to interrupt each other. And yet we constantly interrupt ourselves. We do it when we check our emails incessantly – or won’t simply let a phone go to voicemil when we’re doing something we enjoy – or when we don’t think a thought through, but allow our minds to fix on temporary concerns or desires.
From The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe, quoting Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness by Kabat-Zinn.
I want to be able to say that the above passage does not apply to me. Of course, it completely does. But my goal is to make it apply less.
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