A Quote by Rollo May

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Rollo May

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Rollo May
American - Psychologist
April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

Rollo May

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Tara Brach

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Viktor E. Frankl

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Rollo May

Even in the busiest lives, there is room for a sacred pause. Between actions, pause and remember who you are.

Jennifer Kavanagh

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

W. Somerset Maugham

Your mind, in order to defend itself starts to give life to inanimate objects. When that happens it solves the problem of stimulus and response because literally if you're by yourself you lose the element of stimulus and response. Somebody asks a question, you give a response. So, when you lose the stimulus and response, what I connected to is that you actually create all the stimulus and response.

Willi Smith

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor E. Frankl

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)

Samuel Beckett

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Stephen Covey

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

Sharon Salzberg

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

A. J. Jacobs

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

Walter Brueggemann

Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

Edward Young

Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

Tara Brach

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