Sublime

When you have cultivated mindfulness, life becomes richer, more vivid, more satisfying, and you don’t take everything that happens so personally. Attention plays a more appropriate role within the greater context of a broad and powerful awareness. You’re fully present, happier, and at ease, because you’re not so easily caught up in the stories and

A mental device—a sound, word, phrase, or prayer repeated silently or aloud, or a fixed gaze at an object A passive attitude—not worrying about how well one is performing the technique and simply putting aside distracting thoughts to return to one’s focus

Meditative practice reveals that we are most fundamentally the opening of consciousness that watches thoughts coming and going, rather than the center of thought and intention with which we normally identify.

Arthur F. Miller Jr. writes: “Understand that you are God’s idea. You will be held accountable for using what he gave you to work with.”4

So in this practice, you go slowly through the threefold process of perception: the sense of being, the sense of doing, and the sense of linking together.

Syd Banks (the initial inspiration behind this form of psychology) began to speak. The audience listened with a deep respect, and the

The spiritual practice described here is not about becoming a better person. It is not about increasing your skills, being more effective in your life, healing old wounds or being successful. It is about finding a way that leaves you at peace in your life and free to respond to others in whatever way is appropriate.