The mind is a tangle of sensations,
Vivid recollections of sensations,
Images of events as well as
Images of states of mind
While innumerable subtle faiths,
Fears, anticipations, instincts,
Superstitions, and blind tendencies
Forever tinge the fabric of reality

And these tendencies — tendens —
Are a stretching to, a yearning to be
Tending to explain or explain away
And so exert a measure of control
Over your world and how you
Choose to be within it
What Satisfies or frustrates your
Tendencies is felt instinctively
As pleasure or pain

And when you fail to notice
What you have failed to notice
Because you are busy trying
Not to notice what you don't
Want to notice, your prāṇa (प्राण)
Your vital energy, the vivifier of
Action and perception, is depleted
Thought is dulled and action is

Notice the things that you like to do
That give you bad results and
The things that you don’t like to do
That give you good results