Same here man. Same here.
ideas do not like to be treated as if they were lifeless, inanimate objects (would you?) and therefore they gravitate towards minds that treat them with the respect and dignity they deserve.
secretorum.life • Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead
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Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cli... See more
jamesclear.com • "This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace
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Ajinkya Wadhwa added
The control of the thinking machine is perfectly possible. And since nothing whatsoever happens to us outside our brains, since nothing hurts us or give us pleasure except within our brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on inside the mysterious brain is patent… people complain of the lack of the power to concentrate, not... See more
Farnam Street • How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Arnold Bennett on Living a Meaningful Life Within the Constraints of Time
Johanna added
Too often, our inner emotional life and our thoughts were, implicitly or explicitly, treated as obstacles to attention, rather than being themselves appropriate objects of the same loving attention we lavish on cleaning the toilet.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
The way we think about thought is political. This much was evident at the birth of the modern study of the mind, when Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia wrote to René Descartes in 1643 to question his account of cognition. Her self-deprecation will be familiar to any woman who’s dared to dispute with an eminence, and knows that the best way to begin is ... See more
Sally Davies • Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body | Aeon Essays
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I READ the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private he
... See moreRalph Waldo Emerson • Self Reliance (Illustrated)
