« Meditation facilitates a change in attitude and conviction. Because it leads to openness, curiosity and acceptance of what is. It facilitates tolerance of difference and understanding of others, better than mere information: because information only works with people who are flexible, receptive. A study showed that a particular form of psychotherapy based on acceptance and mindfulness (which we talked about) could lead to a better evolution of prejudice. »

« Meditation is correlated with well-being, and seems to be associated in its practitioners with a greater frequency of positive moods, and less negatives. No doubt life in full consciousness helps us to better open our eyes to the small pleasures of everyday life. The overall effect on all states of mind is all the more interesting since s e l e c tive attention to the positive is not an objective of mindfulness meditation, which simply advocates the observation and acceptance of all states of mind: but this simple position of benevolent observation, which then allows the examination and flattening of the states of mind, seems sufficient to rebalance their balance in a favorable way. And meditation also facilitates in this way the natural processes of repairing and digesting our sufferings: when we are tormented, sitting down, closing our eyes and indulging in the full consciousness of the present moment. »

« Disobey unconscious injunctions. From my past, from society. I'm learning to spot all the "contractors" in me. Do I have to get angry and panic when I can't find the solution to a problem? Do I really have to open a magazine in this waiting room? Forced to look at my e-mails every day? To quit my job so late? Not to "waste my time"? Pessoa, a great dreamer and great observer of the movements of the human soul, spoke of remaining "faithful to some forgotten oath" to describe those moments when we perpetuate automatisms learned from the past, but that it is perhaps no longer necessary to make live in us, at least in the form of automatisms, precisely. »