“After about ten seconds, my mind wandered. **I tried to notice this shift without judgment and returned to the focus on my breath**. Thinking about breathing reminded me of that scene from the [[Woody Allen]] movie Husbands and Wives where the character Sally lies in bed next to a man, and while he’s kissing her, she thinks about the fact that he’s a “hedgehog,” and she starts sorting her friends into hedgehogs or foxes. “That got me thinking about the [[Archilochus]] fragment “**The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing**,” and that got me thinking about the [[Isaiah Berlin]] essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” and that got me thinking about my mixed feelings about [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]] . . . now back to my breath. “I thought about breath for a few seconds, then thought about the fact that I’d have to remember to write about having been distracted from my breath by a scene from a [[Woody Allen]] movie.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[meditation]] , [[mindfulness]] , [[habits]] , [[routines]] , [[discipline]] **Source** -- [[20240806084000 - B - Better Than Before]]