Cleon

The sense of 'being aware' in mindfulness points to the fact that we generally tend to reify awareness as an inherently existing, separate thing, just as we do with the self, when, in actuality, sensations are awareness. When we see a colour, our sense of 'being aware' of it is a reification: the colour is already awareness itself. But it's... See more

You yourself actually are not so much an entity that moves around in an environment. You are much more like a whirlpool in a stream. The whirlpool is constant only in its doing, that is to say in its whirling. And, you could recognize individual whirligigs in a stream, but the water is flowing through them all the time. They are never the same for... See more

Novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson on the shortness of life:

“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”

Philosopher and author Albert Camus on the excuses we allow ourselves to live by:

"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."

we know that we are unable accurately to introspect about the workings of our minds. We thematize the results of our introspection in certain ways. One way we tend to thematize the experience of a particular intention is to adopt it as a product that arises solely from some exercise of free (causally-exempt) will.

“I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind. I always focused on the fact that I had to try something to get it, and once I got it, I’d have another tool in my arsenal. If the price was a lot of work and a few missed shots, I was OK with that.

I did try to get my kids into meditation before but it was more of a confirmation to them of how annoying their dad is than anything they would take up.

Whenever I want to evoke the feeling of gratitude,l I usually start with the simple realisation that I am alive and breathing. Seneca said something along the lines of ‘treat each separate day as a separate life’. I try to remember this quote as often as possible and find it very helpful in regards to gratitude. You could also think about all the... See more