The basic state of mind is the chronic "I don't have enough", so it is eternally greedy. He who identifies himself with the mind is very quickly overcome by boredom and restlessness. What is boredom? This is a sign that the brain needs food for thinking, that it is hungry.
And this hunger is insatiable.
If boredom overcomes you, you can buy a bunch of colorful magazines, sit on the phone, arm yourself with the TV remote, click aimlessly on websites, and also (a very common case) translate the feeling of lack of mind into a physical sensation and satisfy it by consuming a considerable amount of food.
Or you can remain bored and restless, observing every aspect of your boredom and restlessness. When you bring awareness to your feeling, suddenly a kind of peaceful space is created around it. Pretty meaningless at first. But it will grow, and relieve boredom and anxiety more and more. You see: even boredom can show you who you really are.
Then you find out that the "bored" is not you. Boredom is simply a conditioned movement of energy within you. In the same way, you are not angry, sad, afraid. Boredom, anger, sadness, fear are not "yours", not a personality. All this is just a conditioned movement of energy in you. "circumstances" of the human mind. They come and go.
Everything that comes and goes is not you.
"I miss you." Who is aware of this?
"I'm angry, sad, scared. " WHO?
You are the one who is aware, and not these states of which you are aware.
Silence speaks
ECKHART TOLLE 🐈