The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day

by Andy Puddicombe

our entire existence is experienced through the mind. We depend on it for our sense of happiness and fulfillment in life and for positive relationships with others.

the structure of the brain itself can change, in a process known as neuroplasticity.

The kind of happiness that I’m talking about is the ability to feel comfortable no matter what emotion arises.”

Perhaps in those moments when we’re overcome by a difficult emotion we might wish that there was some way to get rid of all of them, but this is usually fleeting.

This is what it means to have awareness, to see the mind with absolute clarity.

we’re so used to doing something, being involved in something,

Whether we’re aware of the physical senses, our emotions, our thoughts, or the content of those thoughts, it’s all awareness and there is always time to be aware.

The present moment just feels so ordinary that we take it for granted, and yet that’s what makes it so extraordinary