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The Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘brain rot’ which they defined as: “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterio
... See more“Your attention dictates what experiences are even possible for you to have. And a different experience for you is available at all time but it depends what frequency you are running on. You can think of this as a radio station. It sends out a certain frequency and then matches it and only certain things will be able to be received on this frequency. Which frequency you choose to be on and pay attention to will determine the outcomes and the experience you have.”
Extract from the video : “Brain Rot and The Fight To Feel Sharp Again”
“Silence is more effective than speech. From silence came thought, from thought the ego and from the ego speech. So if speech is effective, how much more effective must its original source be” – Ramana Maharshi
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t
“What is talkativeness? It is the result of doing away with the vital distinction between talking and keeping silent. Only some one who knows how to remain essentially silent can really talk--and act essentially. Silence is the essence of inwardness, of the inner life. Mere gossip anticipates real talk, and to express what is still in thought weake
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