How can we feel "still and calm" when we think we have to be constantly on the lookout? How can we retain some sense of control of what is coming into and out of our consciousness when it seems that there is just too much to process? The challenge . . . is to learn an enlightened ignorance by intentionally closing your mind, quieting your busy brain and realizing that well-being is not being well-off by having made all the right choices. It is a consciousness of stillness . . . a persistent patience that derives from an intentional disregard of many things in order to fully attend to a few things, achieved by attention to a narrower band of stimulation.
— Paul Pearsall, Toxic Success