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" By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace. "
Mind
Experience
Thoughts
" Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything. "
Reject
Cling
Anything
" Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens. "
Bad
Look
Yourself
" Meditation changes your character. "
Character
Changes
Meditation
" Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions. "
Become
Experiences
Us
" Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience. "
Experience
Thought
Concept
" The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are. "
Brain
Thoughts
Practice
" The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. "
Past
Mind
Memories
" The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. "
Transformation
Purpose
Meditation
" Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior. "
Watch
Own
Calm
" Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves. "
Others
Will
Whatever
" When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic. "
Yourself
Others
You
" You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them. "
You
Learn
Recognize
" You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion. "
Mind
Step
You
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