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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.

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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.

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Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

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Meditation changes your character.

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When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

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Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

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The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

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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.

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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.

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You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

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