the mind is a trap
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the mind is a trap
The content of mind is unreliable and cannot be predicted with any assurance, unless we wish to rely on habitual notions.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Aware
The mind must be understood – if not, it will be your master. What slave is ever happy?
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the futu
... See moreEckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. —David Allen, author of Getting Things Done
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Essentially, the mind is making stories: sequences of events, past or future, where you stand to gain or lose something. You imagine—or re-imagine—a date, an interview, a conversation, an argument, a Facebook comment thread gone awry, a future performance evaluation, a call-out from a family member who, it turns out, noticed you took the last Popsi... See more
David Cain • Where There's Stress, There's a Story
” We’ve arrived at another moment of truth. An intelligence that requires an input to generate an output is called as a “tool.” Google is a tool. An online dictionary is a tool. You can’t add intelligence to a tool. Only the person who created the tool can do this. You can’t control the results of Google and the dictionary. However, you can influen
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