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Not exactly complexity related - but I would like to share this anyway. Some quotes from a diverse bunch of people about mindfullness, awareness and being “awake” - that is, consciously aware of living the actual moment. Try to practice this, the results are amazing.

Mindfulness: The practice of being “here” | 43 Folders
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. Henry David Thoreau.

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