From the Urban Tarot, the Nine of Disks; from the Principles to Live By, Mindfulness:
The paradox of impatience is that, in trying to hurry toward enjoyment, we hurry past it.
―Dean Sluyter
The Thoth keyword for this card is Gain; Scott says it is our hard-learned prudence that gets us to this place. Yet Gain is not just about more money or things - it can also include time to enjoy the pleasures of life as this woman does. But for those of us who hit the floor running every morning, it may be hard to relax. We may be lying in a hot tub with cucumbers over our eyes, but our mind has jumped ahead to what we need to be doing later. Mindfulness is a reminder to rest the mind and let the senses take over, simply paying attention without judgment. It gets easier with practice.
When practicing mindfulness, even directed toward something as ordinary as breathing, we enhance the part of the mind that is aware of the way things are while diminishing the part that is stressed because things are not the way we want them to be.
—Andrew Olendzki
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