“Look, I want to love this world
as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get
to be alive
and know it.”

~ Mary Oliver

"Almost always our focus is on something else—not this. We seek another moment of greater happiness— not this moment. Contentment seems always elsewhere—never here."

~ Gaylon Ferguson

Experiential focus would be paying attention to something that’s going on. You’re engaged in what’s going on. Vipassana would be a good way to do that or even just listening now to the sound of the air-conditioner will move your mind into experiential focus.

Narrative focus is when we’re telling ourselves a story about our experience. These are two very different ways that the mind works.