Clare Mingins

It is possible to look at things differently.

"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment." Ram Dass

"The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation is in the way we handle this very moment." Thich Nhat Hanh

"An education which should improve this faculty [of attention] would be the education par excellence." William James - The Principles of Psychology, p.424.

"Do you have the patience to wait
Till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
Till the right action arises by itself?" Lao Zi

A question upon which the value of one's life depends: How to raise the tone of my inner and outer life? ... [Full post in link for a time]

"...to think well, one must move well..." Keith Badger

Consciousness is a unifying force, within and without.

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What is the antidote to tunnel vision? How easy it is, when hearing an opinion or point of view quite different from one's own, or even one "obviously wrong," to immediately squash it. I suppose it is, however, many times easier to see how others squash one's own suggestions...

...as a means to enlarge my understanding, rather than automatically closing down other possibilities than that which I so far see? The latter, of course, only increases this tendency to tunnel vision, or, in other words, this susceptibility to a kind of hypnotism. ...

...approaches and views, than vice versa. This seems all down to the seemingly universal tendency to view things from a chink in a cavern. My chink is different to your chink, and therefore we see a different aspect. But can I use the knowledge of this difference...

2/2 These moments are never truly lost, but remain present when I am present.

1/2 The more you notice, the less fleeting the moment. Maybe it's a quirk of human psychology, but the impression of the "expanding" present with increased awareness, seems to connect it with all other such moments of increased consciousness.

Perhaps John Milton said it best: "A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n."

"The path to paradise begins in hell." Dante Aligheri
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On the other hand: "All the way to heaven is heaven." Teresa d'Avila

You can't "just" imagine something. Every imaginative action has physical as well as psychological consequences, not that you can really separate these two.

Keep moving upwards!