This world-making via thinking is natural, sane, Darwinian: we do it to survive. Is there harm in it? Well, yes, because we think in the same way that we hear or see: within a narrow, survival-enhancing range. We don't see or hear all that might be seen or heard but only that which is helpful for us to see and hear. Our thoughts are similarly restricted and have a similarly narrow purpose: to help the thinker thrive.
—George Saunders
Other people's words
If you only hear other people's words as triggers to tell your own story, beware.
Labels: thought
Locks (Stallings)
As we shut each door,
It locks: we cannot enter anymore.
A. E. Stallings, from "Lost and Found"
Labels: poetry
And this is why Mom doesn't fix her own computer
Btw, it worked.
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Frightening
What kind of mind decides to worship what it fears?
Labels: thought
To excuse
We are much quicker to excuse what we like or deem customary or necessary.
Labels: thought
Every day
Every day is an anniversary of infinity.
Labels: thought
The path
If suffering is the only path to achievement,
how far along it should we travel?
Labels: thought
On religion
Religion is the ketchup of philosophy.
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Nothing
Nothing is as disturbing as realizing what your friends and neighbors think is real and true.
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Pretense/Pose
There are worse things than false bonhomie, but not many.
Labels: thought