A Quote
“Now keep looking at this unpleasant situation or person until you realize that it isn’t they that are causing the negative emotions. They are just going their way, being themselves, doing their thing whether right or wrong, good or bad. It is your computer that, thanks to your programming, insists on your reacting with negative emotions.
You will see this better if you realize that someone with a different programming when faced with this same situation or person or event would react quite calmly, even happily.
Don’t stop till you have grasped this truth: The only reason why you too are not reacting calmly and happily is your computer that is stubbornly insisting that reality be reshaped to conform to its programming. Observe all of this from the outside so to speak and see the marvelous change that comes about in you.”
— The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello
The "outside, so to speak," is the key realization: our ability to get up on our mental balcony, and look down on our brain and all of its goings on, and even laugh at the carnival below.
The balcony is a place of refuge from the madness of our minds and the trance of cause and effect that dominates our days.
Getting on the balcony is a skill that can be developed with just 10 minutes a day with the help of the WakingUp app. It can change your mind, and therefore your life, since:
"The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life." Sam Harris
