> we go on autopilot.
I think mindfulness is simply being in a state where all our thoughts and perceptions are freely available to us, and not where most of that is shut off and we are, as you said, on autopilot, blanking out our real thoughts and perceptions because we have been taught (forced) to not know them.
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
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