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Wren


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You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.

-- Lame Deer, Medicine Man of the Oglala people

Whenever were thinking, our experience is being filtered through our minds. For example, when I say to myself, What a beautiful sunset! I am not fully experiencing the sunset because I am involved with the words in my mind.

Explore letting go of the thoughts, the words, and connecting directly with your experiences. Tune in to the silence and the sensations in your body. Be aware of the spaciousness this brings because this is truly living in the present moment.

Being present doesnt mean that we have to abandon thinking entirely. Thats not feasible, of course. But we can experiment with what its like to stop thinking once in a while!

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

-- Hans Margolius



-- Edited by Wren at 19:56, 2007-05-11

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psychoktty


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I'm sorry, my first thought reading the title was "Remove the filters?? But the coffee will turn out all chunky!!!"

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Wren


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RE: Remove Your Mental Filters
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LOL, okay Kitty, you got me. I looked at it and thought of furnace filters.  Chris

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  I looked at it as computer filters - you know - keep the junk (bad stuff) out.

Later - Jeannie

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