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Mindfulness

Mindfulness

  • We often live in our thoughts and feelings, becoming habituated to negative reactions by external events.
  • The antidote to this, he recommends, is self-observation, where our attention (rather than being fixed on externals) is directed inwards.
  • Rather than reacting by default, we must realise that nothing can control or perturb us without our mental consent.

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

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