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Eric Overby

Eric Overby

Mindful. Stoic. Surg Tech. Poet. Journaling my journey of discovery and change; showing my appreciation for life and the living world.

Seeing Your Eyes

A Poem on the Three Mirrors

1 min readJun 15, 2020

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To know your mind,

You need a little distance.

You need to be a step or two away

And be able to notice

What your mind is doing

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Without being so lost or involved in it

That you can’t see it.

It’s like trying to see your eyes.

If you want to see yourself,

You need to create some space,

You need a mirror.

Stillness, mindfulness, meditation:

Those are the mirrors.

The principal enemy of mindfulness — or of any meditative practice — is our deeply conditioned habit of being distracted by thoughts. The problem is not thoughts themselves but the state of thinking without knowing that we are thinking. — Sam Harris

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Eric Overby
Eric Overby

Written by Eric Overby

Mindful. Stoic. Surg Tech. Poet. Journaling my journey of discovery and change; showing my appreciation for life and the living world.