Mindful Tech User Gifts

"Technology is addicting, but you're making progress. Now, hit exit - your time was up hours ago."

"I'm not seeking solitude – I'm seeking service."

"Sometimes I wonder if you're helping me reach new depths of consciousness or simply mining me for data."

"Technology isn't making me smarter. It's allowing me to be dumb, faster."

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

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

"Yes, sir, Dave. Out here, under the big sky, I always get back in touch with who 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

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

"Slowly begin to reawaken the body with thoughts of unread E-mails, piles of dirty laundry, and the kids you have to pick up from school."

Go ahead and dissect me

'I was trying to extinguish my ego, and I got an Out of Memory Error.'

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

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

2 + 2 = 4. 2 x 2 = 4. Oh, I get it! It's a Zen thing!

The power of the brain

"You have got to want to change."

Monks sitting at a row of computers typing up old-fashioned looking manuscripts.

'I'm beginning to think outside the box again - get my GP quickly!'

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

Been there. Done that. (Man stands between two doors.)

"You what? Well, you darn well ought to have a guilt complex"

Binary Meditation.

'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"

Crazy Straw. Crazy Straw after therapy

"Forgetting passwords doesn't make you a bad person, Arnold."

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

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

'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."

"Hmmm?!"

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