Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Be present and in the moment.

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.

I'm not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude's doing.

My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.

My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.