Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Buddhism is not really a religion—a way of obedience to someone else’s rules, a regula vitae—but a method for clarifying and liberating one’s state of consciousness. I had found myself in agreement with Lucretius
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Ajahn Amaro
Noah Levine • Dharma Punx
Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley (2002) credit Buddhist mindfulness practice with providing insights to help obsessive-compulsive patients.
David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind
When posed with even the deepest questions about reality, human brains tend towards story.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Huxley’s psychedelic-inspired description of the brain as a ‘reduction valve’ of otherwise unlimited consciousness—
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
William of Occam, who held that ‘it is vain to do with more what can be done with less’.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
Goleman, Daniel. Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama. New York: Bantam Dell, 2003.