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Zen Habits, an insightful series of articles on how to achieve simplicity — in career, relationships and design — amidst the daily chaos of our western culture and lifestyle. The article below is a quotation from Leo Babauta, and is a valuable lesson that I’ve learned over and over again through the exercise of meditation, exploring the city through the activity of photowalks and cultivating camera-style personal creativity.
“More interesting is what you see when you sit and watch yourself. You learn to step outside yourself, and act as an observer. You see your thoughts, and learn more about yourself than you ever could if you were rushing to take action.
You see your self-doubts, and self-criticism, and wonder where they came from (a bad incident in childhood, perhaps?) and wonder if you are smart enough to let them go. You see your rationalizations, and realize that they are bullshit, and learn to let those go too.
You see your fears, and realize what hold they have over you, and realize that you can make them powerless, by just sitting and watching them, not taking action on them.
By sitting and watching, you come to know yourself.
You learn the most valuable lessons about life, by sitting and watching.
And as we know from the observer effect in physics, by watching, we change what we watch.
Take a few minutes today, to sit and watch. It might change your life.”
via » Sitting and Watching :zenhabits.