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“So long as the mind is split, life is perpetual conflict, tension, frustration, and disillusion” Of course, the split he’s referring to is the mind believing that it is separate from reality, but it made me think about our left and right brains being split, and the separate voices
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“The real meaning of life is not possible to embrace, if you are looking for the universal meaning of life. And at the same time it is so simple that it can be explained to fools and to infants when what to know is what you should do as an
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“If the mind is the directive force behind action, the mind and its vision of life must be healed before action can be anything but conflict.” Excerpt From: Alan Watts & Deepak Chopra. “The Wisdom of Insecurity.” Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011-11-16. Apple Books.
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“It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking” One of the ideas I’ve been wrestling with since reading Jaynes has been this idea of other people’s thoughts in our minds. Thinking is silent talking; listening is letting someone else think for a moment. When you’
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“The psychology of ordinary man could even be called the study of lying, because man lies more than anything else; and as a matter of fact, he cannot speak the truth. It is not so simple to speak the truth; one has to learn how to do it, and sometimes
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“So we imagine ourselves, really. We are not what we imagine ourselves to be.” We create ourselves from our imaginations? Excerpt From: P. D. Ouspensky. “The Fourth Way.” Apple Books.
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“Our understanding of eternity is the voice of God who lives within us.” Literally lives within our bicameral brains. Excerpt From: Tolstoy, Leo. “A Calendar of Wisdom.” Scribner, 2010-05-11. Apple Books.
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One theory, said Ivry, is that the region is predicting what’s going to happen in the very near future based on a lifetime of tracking what has worked and what hasn’t in the past and adjusting its movements accordingly. The cerebellum, said Ivry, is a “giant pattern recognition
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And because a physical space in the world can always be returned to, so we feel irrationally, somehow certain, impossibly certain, that we should be able to return again to some often unfinished relationship, some childhood scene or situation or regretted outburst of love or temper or to undo some