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One of the most amazing things you will ever realize is that the moment in front of you is not bothering you—you are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you.
The moment in front of me is neutral. It’s me that is biased.
Mindfulness is a natural, effortless process once you let go of personal distractions. Instead of thinking that the moment in front of you has to be a certain way, you start thinking that it’s pretty awesome the way it is. In fact, it’s amazing that it even exists.
you are not looking out into the world. The outside is being reproduced in your mind, and you are looking at that mental image.
The foundational choice we have in life is either constantly control life to compensate for our blockages or devote our lives to getting rid of our blockages.
Suffering is caused by the contrast between what you mentally decided you wanted and the reality unfolding in front of you. To whatever degree they don’t match, you suffer.
Notice that consciousness can focus fully on the heart, fully on the mind, or it can divide its awareness between the two. When emotions are extremely pleasant, you may have the tendency to behave irrationally because you don’t want to shift awareness from the beauty in your heart to the rational mind. On the other hand, when the emotions are unpleasant, you may try to change the inner experience by letting your thoughts distract you from what’s happening in the heart. The mind becomes a place the soul goes to hide from the heart. To transcend this tendency to hide in either your heart or your
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Your samskaras are what cause your heart to open and close.
Your psyche is the net result of all your blockages and how the energy manages to flow through them. As the fluctuations in the energy flow cause your heart to change, your thoughts will change.
Every experience makes you a greater person if you don’t resist it.
