Mindfulness meditation, when done regularly over a long period of time, helps to create space between stimulus and response.
It is in that space between stimulus and response that we have the power to choose our response.
Without this power, we are leaves in the river running pre-programming like automatons.
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One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.