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We are all self-absorbed, locked in our own worlds. It is a therapeutic and liberating experience to be drawn outside ourselves and into the world of another.
Robert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. — ALAN WATTS
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
We have to learn to disengage from the world, for without disengagement we can’t journey from ego to spirit because we are locked into the common emotion. I’ll talk more about how to escape from that later on. The point is, are you going to see the world from the insecurity,
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
― Albert Camus
Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life sings itself. But that kind of attention is the prize. To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass—seeing things in such a narrow and
... See moreAnne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos... See more