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Albert Camus, shaped by the existential anxieties of post-war France and the ever-present threat of historical absurdity, might seem an unlikely guide to mindfulness. Yet, his grappling with meaninglessness, so poignantly articulated in works like *The Myth of Sisyphus* and *The Stranger*, paradoxically illuminates the value of being present. Faced with a world devoid of inherent purpose, Camus advocated for rebellion through embracing the immediate experience. This active engagement with the present moment, a conscious choice to acknowledge and inhabit the absurd, forms the bedrock of a Camusian mindfulness – a resolute finding of worth not in future hopes or past regrets, but in the tangible now.
"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There all my knowledge ends, and the rest is construction."
"If you spend your life dissecting the definition of happiness or the meaning of life, you will forget to actually live it."
"Everything that is not lived in the present is lost."
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
"We are all special cases."
"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life."
"If you are looking for the meaning of life, you will never live."
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
"In the middle of a world that had always been occupied with other things, I found myself alone."
"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of."
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