Recollection, practice of the presence of God and sacrament of the present moment do indeed involve mindfulness. And as the author states, it is not just mindfulness of the self or present moment, but God within the self and present moment. Finding God through the self is exactly what I have been reading In St Bonaveture’s *Itinerarium Mentis in Deum *.
ON THE SIGHT OF GOD IN HIS IMAGE REFORMED BY GRATUITOUS GIFTS
But since not only when passing-over through ourselves, but also in ourselves, does it happen that the First Principle is contemplated; and this is greater than the preceding: for that reason this fourth manner of considering reaches the step of contemplation. Moreover it is wonderful to see, when it is shown, 2 that God is so close to our minds, because to so few does it belong to gaze upon the First Principle in their very selves. But the reason (for this) is easy, because the human mind, distracted by cares, does not enter into itself through memory; beclouded by phantasms, it does not go back towards itself through intelligence; enticed by concupiscences, it turns back not at all towards itself through a desire for internal savor and spiritual gladness. For that reason lying down totally in these senses, it cannot reenter into itself as into an image of God.
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