“Do we find thoughts coming into our minds as though we have no control over them? Do we get to our destination and cannot remember a single function such as having locked the front door or turn the iron off, etc.?
We tend to live so much of our lives on autopilot that it can feel as if our minds have a will of their own and the thoughts that come to us are random. Mindfulness teaches us how not to let random thinking swamp us, but to observe it and then to regain control over our own minds.”
– From The Little Book Of Mindfulness