“Make it a habit to monitor your mental-emotional state through self-observation.  ‘Am I at ease at this moment?’ is a good question to ask yourself frequently.  Or you can ask: ‘What’s going on inside me at this moment?’  Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside.  If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 77)

Beyond the Quote (38/365)

For so many of us, the gap between an outside stimulus and our response is immediate and reflexive.  We react with the immediate feelings and emotions that arise without really knowing what those feelings and emotions even are—until after the fact.  Acting and then thinking has it’s time and it’s place, but so does thinking and then acting.  Get it wrong and things could get far more complicated and challenging than they need to.