Via Daily Dharma: Inquiring into the Unconscious

To see clearly—to perceive things as they are—we must break the chain between the percept and the concept. This break comes after the senses connect with the object of perception, but before the great flywheel of mental habit boxes that perception in stale cubbyholes of thoughts and feelings.

—Interview with Tara Bennett-Goleman, “Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart”