For the mind has a willfulness of its own, and is pulled this way and that by memory and experience, and by how these things involve themselves in whatever sensations are present to the individual as they navigate the landscape of daily life. Which is why, if one isn’t careful, and doesn’t inhabit the now with attention, one will find that one’s wits become prey to the lapses in judgment and apprehension that result from what I can think to describe only as emotional karma.