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I have heard from countless people who assumed that they could never meditate because they can’t stop thinking. I cannot say this frequently enough: the goal is not to clear your mind but to focus your mind -- for a few nanoseconds at a time -- and whenever you become distracted, just start again. Getting lost and starting over is not failing at meditation, it is succeeding. ~ page 7

Medication forces you into a direct collision with a fundamental fact of life that is not often pointed out to us: we all have a voice in our heads.

When I talk about the voice in your head, I’m not referring to schizophrenia or anything like that; I’m talking about your internal narrator. It’s sometimes called your “ego” The Buddhists had a cool name for it: “the monkey mind” ~ Page 8

I am not making this up. Our species is classified as ‘Homo sapiens sapiens’: the one who thinks and knows he or she thinks. However, that second ‘sapiens’ often falls by the way side because nobody bothers to point out to us that we have this natural capacity to view the contents of our consciousness with some nonjudgmental remove. Mindfulness is your birthright. The ego’s writ only extends so far; you have the ability to resist its misrule, to break out of the prison of neuronic self-obsession. ~ Page 14

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