Mindfulness helps, but it isn’t everything…

“Bhakti teaches us that joy comes from the awakened heart, not from a controlled and stilled mind. Happiness lies in loving, not in knowing or mindfulness or any sort of mental peace that is the goal of most meditation and all of psychoanalysis. By the practice of bhakti, the heart expands with love and the mind with awareness of the self, and gradually we move from simple human love to an all-encompassing, otherworldly wise-love. d”

— Wise-Love: Bhakti and the Search for the Soul of Consciousness by Pranada Comtois
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About Aniruddha

President of the Hare Krishna Community in Melbourne Australia, amongst other things.
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