This is my new mantra. My former mantra, be careful of what you assume, is still useful. This follows it.
These days I am thinking about thinking, reaction, perception, and misperception (the 'veil of illusion'). Time, space, ego, mind, and senses are the screen or veil through which we perceive others and events.
Unhappiness does not come from events, but from reactions to them. Is our perception of the event clear, or is it seen through an unexamined veil of illusion?
Then I veered off this path and started thinking about thinking. There is a difference between expression and reaction to a thought and the awareness of the thinking process. Observe your thoughts without identifying with them. Separate the thinking process from the awareness of it. There is thinking, and there is the recognition of thinking.
Next thought
Finish what you begin. The task itself is not important. Completion is. Uncompleted things weaken action and judgment.
Pay attention to what you repeat. Repetition becomes habit. Repetition will shape you and how you experience things. If you do what you always do, you will get what you always got.
