A Practical Guide to Mindfulness: Be Present in this Moment (Practical Guide Series)

by Tessa Watt

In what is seen, there is only the seen In what is heard, there is only the heard In what is sensed, there is only the sensed In what is thought, there is only the thought Bahiya

we can notice this difference between direct experience and thinking about our experience.

They are as natural as waves, coming and going within the ocean of our awareness.

&emp;

A native American grandfather was trying to explain the existence of violence and cruelty to his grandson. He said it was like he had two wolves fighting in his heart: one angry and one kind. The grandson asked who would win this fight between the wolves, and the grandfather answered ‘The one I choose to feed’.