Consciousness / Philosophy
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Procrastination « You Are Not So Smart
Netflix reveals something about your own behavior you should have noticed by now, something which keeps getting between you and the things you want to accomplish.
Three Techniques for Quieting Your Mind - Global One TV
A mere week ago, I was telling a client that I thought it was impossible to completely stop ourselves from thinking.
If there’s one thing we all have in common it’s that we want to feel happy; and on the other side of that coin, we want to avoid hurting.
Letting Go of Attachment, from A to Zen | zen habits
Meditation
brain
It’s said that Albert Einstein once commented that the most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.
Kensho
Psychology
metaphysics
My father once told me a story about how he and his cousin Pat would dress up, head out into public and pretend to be other people. Once they put on some plaid shirts, worn-out pants and hiking boots, then went to a local bar to smoke cigars, shoot pool, and pretend to be one of the guys who did that sort of thing seriously. Another time they wore dark sunglasses, rented three piece suits and stood stoic on a street corner, looking like federal agents and generally making people nervous.
i'm a million different people from one day to the
The Web is grand. With its fame for hosting informative, easy-to-skim textual snippets and collaborative written works, people are spending more and more time reading online.
Thirty Books Everyone Should Read Before They’re Thirty - DivineCaroline
The Things We Already Know
We know the answers to many of the questions we ask ourselves, whether we admit it or not. We deny the answers for many reasons.
Humans Can Only Walk In Circles and We Don't Know Why
Click to view Humans can't walk in straight lines. If there's no fixed point of reference, we just walk in circles and inevitably get lost. Nobody knows why, but researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have confirmed it in several experiments.Books
Remove the sponge cell from the sponge, prevent it from finding its way back to its brethren, and it dies. Scrape a liver cell from the liver and in its isolation it too will shrivel and give up life.