Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.
If you have to walk along a dark mountain path, don__ you prefer to have a flashlight to shine on the path ahead? I would suggest that it is possible to have that flashlight in life all the time. What does a flashlight give us? Light.That is, a flashlight sheds light. It is like the faculty of attention__f we turn our full attention to something, we learn more about that thing. We are seeing it with more light. Our attention is our __lashlight._ So it__ all about how much and how fun an attention we consciously bring to life. This quality of attention doesn__ make us hesitant, or slow to decide, particularly__ust as the flashlight doesn__ make us hang back on the trail. So, how do we get to the better quality of attention? With attention! That is, we turn our attention on our attention; we start by trying to see how we don__ pay attention. We sort of keep that light on ourselves. __now thyself_ has been an honored ancient teaching, and it__ still a cornerstone of the world__ greatest philosophies. If you watch yourself honestly, in a detached way__ot guilt-tripping yourself when you screw up__ou gradually learn where it was that you were just blundering along, reacting sort of mechanically, and being asleep even as you were in your waking day. Another way to make this happen is by returning your whole attention to the present__o what__ happening now, in this moment, and this moment, and on__ithin yourself and around you.
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If you have to walk along a dark mountain path, don__ you prefer to have a flashlight to shine on the path ahead? I would suggest that it is possible to have that flashlight in life all the time. What does a flashlight give us? Light.That is, a flashlight sheds light. It is like the faculty of attention__f we turn our full attention to something, we learn more about that thing. We are seeing it with more light. Our attention is our __lashlight._ So it__ all about how much and how fun an attention we consciously bring to life. This quality of attention doesn__ make us hesitant, or slow to decide, particularly__ust as the flashlight doesn__ make us hang back on the trail. So, how do we get to the better quality of attention? With attention! That is, we turn our attention on our attention; we start by trying to see how we don__ pay attention. We sort of keep that light on ourselves. __now thyself_ has been an honored ancient teaching, and it__ still a cornerstone of the world__ greatest philosophies. If you watch yourself honestly, in a detached way__ot guilt-tripping yourself when you screw up__ou gradually learn where it was that you were just blundering along, reacting sort of mechanically, and being asleep even as you were in your waking day. Another way to make this happen is by returning your whole attention to the present__o what__ happening now, in this moment, and this moment, and on__ithin yourself and around you.
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