One of the primary duty of a trustworthy friend is to point out to us our errors — for only when we are able to see our errors can we correct them; and only when we take action to correct them will we be benefiting from our friend’s compassion and sincerity in pointing them out.
When practising mindfulness , we cultivate and strengthen awareness enough to take a step back and not merely react. With mindful awareness , we can insert a gap or a pause between us and what we experience so that we are no longer carried away by our reactive patterns. In that little gap, there exist the freedom to respond in a fresh and less predetermined way.
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