Notice the thought. That’s fine. Notice the anxiety. Notice the fear. Use the meditation to focus your mind…The only thing that is keeping the emotion alive is your own thoughts. You keep churning it over and over again. Your thoughts do not care about you. They only want to perpetuate themselves.
Gary Schneider, Zen for High Schoolers
Mindfulbalance 
This brought me to badly needed tears this morning. I’m sure I read it on your blog at some time that being mindful is easier when there are fewer pressures and it is in our difficult times that our practice will come to aid us. Thank you for bringing me back to that this morning.
ENVY
This afternoon
I came across these fine words
Of Gary Shneider’s
“Your thoughts do not care about you
They only want to perpetuate themselves”
Envy arose as I read them
But I did not allow it
To perpetuate itself
So true: your thoughts do not care about you, they only want to perpetuate themselves. I love this.
I learned from author Echart Tolle that I am not my thoughts. I am more than my thoughts. I have the power to change my thoughts.