“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.” WayMindMeanEnergySimpleEmotionPracticeBuddhismMindfulnessGainsComplicatedBuddhistVariety Author:Frederick Lenz
“When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.” PeopleFeelsWellsChildrenEnoughFeelingsRealityEmotionSeeingAdultsComplicatedUpsetHidingLayersTrue FeelingsSubterfugeHiding Things Author:Wallace Shawn
“If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside.” IfsMayEasySimpleSpaceEmotionOur LivesAwarenessComplicatedThoughts And Emotions Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche
“Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.” KnowsFeelingsDreamTogetherEmotionProduceComplexesObviousComplicatedGloriousProseRegionsDo You KnowVividAnthologyBlazingIlluminatingHawthorne Author:Chris Bachelder