Some people would give anything to know how to control it. But the mind can never be controlled; it can only be questioned, loved, and met with understanding. The mind is like an unruly child. Thoughts come, one after another, to pester us and demand our attention, like unloved children. Our job is to discern, to know the difference between an internal argument and a state where we’re open to listen and receive. Suffering appears when we try to control reality, when we think that we’re the source rather than the mirror image or that we’re more or less than anything else in the mirror. But
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