Taming Our Minds

"The mind is a spider that, if allowed, will tangle everything and then blame the things it clings to for the web it wants to be free of."  Mark Nepo

How true.  Our minds are a wonderful instrument, a computer that is capable of many calculations, reasonings, thoughts; but it is also capable of entangling us.  All of us have been "lost in thought", and I have come to realize that it really is being lost.  The present, what is before us, is not available to us when we are captured by our thoughts.  Researchers say that 90% of our thoughts are redundant and negative.  Is that any way to live?  Let us, instead, take hold of our thoughts, choose positive ones, and be present to our lives.