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Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man - theatre on the spectrum
— Read on www.rte.ie/culture/2019/0208/1028329-portrait-of-the-autist-as-a-young-man-theatre-on-the-spectrum/
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The Mind Must Be Healed
“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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Silent Talking
“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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Noses in the Guidebook
“By trying to understand everything in terms of memory, the past, and words, we have, as it were, had our noses in the guidebook for most of our lives, and have never looked at the view” Memory is a fiction, and words are fiction, and they allow us to ignore
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Don’t Tense Up
“The pain is inescapable, and resistance as a defense only makes it worse; the whole system is jarred by the shock” This is what I was telling my son about getting a shot - if you tense up you make it worse. This week I have to go to the
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Colonial America Is a Myth | Time
time.com/6220951/colonial-america-is-a-myth/
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Breathless
“We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment
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This Enduring Core
“We are struggling to make sure of the permanence, continuity, and safety of this enduring core, this center and soul of our being which we call “I.” For this we think to be the real man—the thinker of our thoughts, the feeler of our feelings, and the knower of
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Francis Fukuyama: Still the End of History - The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/francis-fukuyama-still-end-history/671761/
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Bad Baby
“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,
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Relative
“The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.” Excerpt From: Alan Watts & Deepak Chopra. “The Wisdom of Insecurity.” Knopf
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Language is not what you think it is – Absolute Negation
absolutenegation.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/language-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/ This made me think of Gödel's incompleteness theorem, only applied to language instead of mathematics.