<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The reactive mind is a crippled mind, because it... > {{The reactive mind is a crippled mind, because it limits and distorts everything.}} The reactive mind even deforms how we construct ourselves, through choices based on distorted perceptions. {{Reactivity is the birthplace of ignorance, and the graveyard of potential.}} Reactivity is pure mindlessness, and pure madness. {{Reactivity is the opposite of mindfulness; it is a mindless, stray, erratic, and accidental state of semi-consciousness.}} The reactive mind is volatile, and cannot see itself through its splintered attention span. Reactivity comes in varying degrees with equally varying states of self-developmental retardation. {{The more reactive you are, the more you are stunted and cut-off from experiencing the full measure of life's grand endowment.}} {{Becoming mindful of your own reactivity is the first step toward a form of practical enlightenment.}} {{Awareness IS your opportunity.}} {{Your calm, measured, thoughtfulness, and graceful awareness of your own reactions, will begin to move you toward a life of peace, and a deeper sense of sturdiness against life's trials.}} {{Your life experience can only be as deep as your awareness.}} {{Your existence, as you know it, is a measure of your awareness.}} {{Each step toward self-awareness, is a step toward freedom, that only a truth with self can grant.}} {{Awareness is how everything you will ever have or experience — arrives, or is taken away.}} {{Be considerate, and consider yourself.}} **Source:** [[books/Various Writings|Various Writings]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->