I recently read the Daily Reflections book for the date of January 20, and this is an excerpt:
"Today I humbly ask my Higher Power for the grace to find the space between my impulse and my action; to let flow a cooling breeze when I would respond with heat; to interrupt fierceness with gentle peace; to accept the moment which allows judgment to become discernment; to defer to silence when my tongue would rush to attack or defend."
And here's the quote on mindfulness I read last Tuesday from a 2008 dharma talk by Sylvia Boorstein:
"I think about mindfulness as that practice of making or allowing a space in the mind between the impulse that arises and the action that follows it."
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