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Enriching Our Concept of Mindfulness

By Lorin Roche — 2022

“Mindfulness” means way more than the English word “mind.” In Sanskrit, manas has a wide range of meanings—“mind” in its widest sense, including all the mental powers, intelligence, perception, sense, conscience, will, the way through which thoughts and perceptions touch the soul, heart, spirit, spiritual principle, breath, imagination, invention, opinion, desire, mood, temper—and is connected with heart.

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