My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!

you can manage your mind in three primary ways: let be, let go, let in.

learning how to breathe and be okay when my mind feels dark and gray to accept this passing moment without suppression or lasting fear to know that the clouds moving through me do not define who i am or who i will be learning the art of letting go has been the skill my mind has always sought

my mind, still fugitive,

What I learned on my own I still remember.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

The senses, feelings, and thoughts must be allowed to be spontaneous in the faith that they will then order themselves harmoniously. To try to control the mind forcefully is like trying to flatten out waves with a board, and can only result in more and more disturbance.

Open your mind and let the pictures out

I think your mind is so open your brain fell out!”10

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.

Since the mind seems to have a will of its own, how can one learn to keep it in the present? By practice. There is no other way. Every time your mind starts to leak away, simply bring it gently back.

You must use your mind to get things off your mind.

I was trying to daydream but my mind kept wandering.

When I lately retired to my house I resolved, as far as I could, to meddle in nothing, but to pass in peace and privacy what little time I had to live. It seemed to me I could not better gratify my mind than by giving it full leisure to dwell in its own thoughts and divert itself with them. And I hoped that with the passage of time, it could do this with greater ease as it became more settled and ripe. But the contrary was the case. Like a horse broke loose, it gave itself a hundred times more rein. There rose in me a horde of chimerae and fantastic creatures, one upon the other, without order or relevance. To contemplate more coolly] their queerness and ineptitude I began to put them in writing - hoping in time to make my mind ashamed of itself. A ming which has no set goal loses itself. To be everywhere is to be nowhere. No wind serves the man bound for no port.