« Mindfulness consists in being present in the experience of the moment we are living, without filter (we accept what comes), without judgment (we do not look for whether it is right or wrong, desirable or not), and without waiting (we do not want something to happen or happen). Mindfulness is therefore a simple presence - just being there - but so difficult to achieve... In general, our attention is only partially devoted to what we are going through. And we are making efforts to focus on some points (which we think are important at the time) rather than others (which we consider secondary). »

« Don't hurt yourself. Never. Life takes care of it... »

« I remember the shock at my first reading of The Letter of Lord Chandos, famous short story by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which tells the story of a man explaining to a friend (the philosopher Francis Bacon) why he retired from the world, gave up writing and more. "All existence once seemed to me, in a kind of continual drunkenness, like a great unity... "Since then, I have been leading an existence that you will have difficulty conceiving, I fear, as it unfolds out of mind, without a thought. `...` It is not easy for me to sketch for you what these happy moments are made of; words once again abandon me. `...` A watering can, an abandoned harrow in a field, a dog in the sun, a miserable cemetery, a cripple, a small peasant's house, all this can become the receptacle of my revelations `...`, the source of this enigmatic, silent, limitless rapture. So many analyses have been done endlessly on the scope of this text (including the inability of language to translate the complexity of any form of experience) that it is certainly, as for Pascal, reductive to extract only these few words. But they say so much, and with so much force! »