## Metadata - Author: [[Norman Fischer]] - Full Title: The World Could Be Otherwise - Category: #books ## Highlights - The imagination doesn’t measure, devise, or instrumentalize. It doesn’t define or manipulate. Instead, its nature is to open, to mystify, to delight, shock, inspire. It extends without limit. It leaps from the known to the unknown, soaring beyond facts to visions and intensities. It lightens up the heavy circumscribed world we think we live in. It plays in the deep end, where heart and love hold sway. ([Location 147](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07J4FT6PR&location=147)) - concentration is unification of the mind in the service of spiritual growth. ([Location 2277](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07J4FT6PR&location=2277)) - Contemporary conceptions of mindfulness imply that mindfulness is an interior affair—that one should be mindful of states of mind, perceptions, thoughts, reactions. In Zen the practice is to be present with whatever appears, inside and outside. To think of inside (thoughts, feelings, reactions) as myself and outside (other people, other beings, objects, activities) as not myself exactly reinforces the problem that Buddhism hopes to help us alleviate. ([Location 2457](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07J4FT6PR&location=2457))