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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Negative feelings persist when the mind’s problem-solving Doing mode (see p. 28) volunteers to help, but instead ends up compounding the very difficulties you were seeking to overcome.
mindfulness meditation frees up more time than it takes to carry out the practices.
We re-live past events and re-feel their pain, and we pre-live future disasters and so pre-feel their impact.
‘Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.’ W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951
The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself.
Your thoughts are thoughts. They are your servants. No matter how loud they shout, they are not your master, giving orders that have to be obeyed.
Mindfulness releases us from the trap of over-generality.
