Slow Down... for Choice

"Perhaps you remember that insightful Chaplin movie Modern Times? Charlie stands at an assembly line in a factory, and for eight hours a day he tightens a nut with his wrench as each piece goes by… Throughout the day he makes the same movement with his arm. When he comes out after eight hours, he cannot stop. Though he has no wrench, he makes the same gesture all the way home, to the amazement of the passersby. This is what happens to speeded-up people. They become automatic, which means they have no freedom and no choices, only compulsions...”

Reference: "Meditation: A Simple Eight-Point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals into Daily Life" by Eknath Easwaran