David Allen defines "Mind like water"
Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. Responding inappropriately to your e-mail, your thoughts about what you need to do, your children, or your boss will lead to less effective results than you’d like. Most people give either more or less attention to things than they deserve, simply because they don’... See more
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Well-being of mind is like a mountain lake without ripples. When the lake has no ripples, everything in the lake can be seen. When the water is all churned up, nothing can be seen. The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don’t feel the need
... See morePema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
When your mind finds peace, like disturbed water becoming still, it will regain its clarity.
Derek Lin • The Tao of Tranquility: The Wisdom of Lao Tzu and the Buddha - Qingjing Jing
Have a mind that has no dwelling place but continues to flow ceaselessly and ignores our limitations and our distinctions. Do not strive to localize the mind anywhere but let it fill up the whole body; let it flow freely throughout the totality of your being. Do not let the mind be grasping or sticky. Don’t look at “what is” from the position of th
... See moreShannon Lee • Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Mingyur Rinpoche has a poetic metaphor for describing it, he says the moment you can see a raging river, it means you are already rising above it. Similarly, the moment you can see an emotion, you are no longer fully engulfed in it.
Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, • Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.