Mindful Materialist Gifts

"I misplace everything, yet there always seems to be more of it."

"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink in the wild air." — Ralph Waldo Emerson "Catch tennis balls in the mouth." — Me

Desk plaques: 'Money isn't everything' '...Which makes it no less awesome in my opinion.'

"I have a recurring nightmare that I've taken a test, and the professor won't give me an 'A'."

"I shop, therefore I am."

"I change my mantra every two months so no one can hack my soul."

I want a calendar where every day says here and now

The power of the brain

'I don't know why Doc, but my life is really upside down...'

“What if I tell you the card you are thinking of is … the Jack of Hearts ?”

"Don’t think of that tennis ball as lost. Think of it as finally free."

"You are responsible for editing your thoughts. I'm just here to audit them."

Binary Meditation.

'You are being haunted by the spirit of a slimmer, trimmer, you.'

'If only I could accept that I can't accept being someone who finds it hard to accept acceptance from those who accept me for the person that I can't accept I really am.'

'Your problems are caused by all-or- nothing thinking. It's either that, or you don't have any problems.'

'I always answer their questions with a question - it drives them nuts!'

"I worry that some people find me boring"

'I don't know how you stand listening to people's problems all of the time, Doctor Barnes.'

"O.K., God – please delete everything I said today."

"The alarm will alert us when our meditative, present-moment-restoring tech break has ended."

"Hmmm?!"

Internal Prisons

"People can bridge the great distance between the Earth and the Moon..."

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with worrying that you forget something."

"I'm doing better. The voices in my head can now access my email."

'You're insecure because your data is unsecured.'

'Too expensive, too long, sounds boring, the jacket is lousy...'

'Stephen Hawking'

'Apparently, they've gone rogue, Al. They've stopped playing roles and are speaking for themselves, and what we have here are two very disturbed bruins.'

Jim was busy detoxing his negative thinking patterns.