Noticing....................

 

The mind is lazy.  It has trained itself to ignore everything except those things that scare it or please it.  By forcing the mind to notice things, you engage it, telling it you want to be aware of life, and to claim back that which has been lost.  By stimulating the five senses, you bridge to the extrasensory perception of the subtle body.  In addition, by stopping to notice, you place yourself more firmly inside this incarnation as a human. . . .It's important that life doesn't just wash past you—so a day becomes a week, a month a year, and suddenly you're old and gray and dead!  By stopping to notice, you are requiring the mind to come back from its world, its pleasures and needs, and enter another world—the real world of observation and comprehension.

-Stuart Wilde, Sixth Sense