August 2012
50 posts
5 tags
“You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because...”
7 tags
“The mind is a feeling, seeking and problem solving machine in one small space,...”
– introskeptic
6 tags
“My life is clearly problem after problem, there is something always to worry...”
– introskeptic
4 tags
“Time changes everything, but time dosen’t exist, so we’re left only...”
16 tags
13 tags
“Go forward, down a path of wisdom, steadily, with strong confidence, be what you...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
8 tags
“In life there are no rewards or punishments, only consequences.”
– Robert Green
6 tags
16 tags
“Every conduct that is rewarded is repeated. The first time a specific conduct...”
– introskeptic, a reflection on human conduct.
5 tags
“There can’t be hope or fear without a desire.”
– introskeptic
7 tags
“The people you meet depends on the place you go, and the place you go depends on...”
– introskeptic
7 tags
A perspective on the human ego by laziyogi
The ego’s needs are endless. Delve into the past and your ego will find problem after problem, insecurity after insecurity. It is helpful to look into our past only to the extent that it sheds light on the Now.
But your problems cannot be solved on the level of the mind. At most they can be understood and accepted on the level of the mind. But then all you can do afterward is become present.
...
8 tags
“For whatever we see everyday in outer reality is actually nothing more than a...”
– Lama Yeshe
7 tags
“You have to forget the pain it brought you in the past, to keep trying.”
– introskeptic
6 tags
“How can we deal with the desire to become someone?
Your action, what you do,...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power (via smirkingbuddha)
“Do not become annoyed when faced with difficulties. To do so merely adds...”
– Master Sheng-yen (via wordslessspoken)
6 tags
“No one has ever caused you to suffer, it was always your own mind.”
– introskeptic
4 tags
“Every reward is the same, an excretion of dopamine neurotransmitters.”
– introskeptic
7 tags
“The people of the earth are islands, shouting at each other over oceans of...”
– Clement Atlee
5 tags
“There is music for every attitude and an attitude for every action.”
– introskeptic
5 tags
“Most people have the hardest time relaxing. We were taught at an early age to...”
– D.R. Butler
10 tags
“Feel your senses, be aware of yourself, your thoughts and habits. For...”
– introskeptic
7 tags
“The closer you look, the more you might discover how every candidate for self...”
– S. Batchelor, “Buddhism Without Beliefs” p. 71
14 tags
“As soon as we think we know something, then we become rigid and unresponsive....”
– Gerry Shishin Wick Roshi, “Give and Take: On Studying Koans”
10 tags
3 tags
“Since you always lived inside your own head, you were much better at seeing the...”
– Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman (via braindream)
8 tags
“My mind dosen’t care about what I do, it just wants to repeat thoughts...”
– introskeptic
4 tags
“It’s nice to remember that all of this pain is just the result of cognitive...”
– lazyyogi
5 tags
“Neuroscience has long recognized that emulation of the future is one of the main...”
– David Eagleman
4 tags
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
7 tags
“There are several surprises about stories. The first is that we spend a great...”
– David Eagleman
6 tags
“You consume your own sacrifice. The more you consume, the more you have to...”
– introskeptic
8 tags
“All our desires come from the same roots, the memories of pleasure. All our...”
– introskeptic
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde (via selfinspiration)
8 tags
“Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never...”
– Fernando Pessoa, A factless autobiography
6 tags
“Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was...”
– Charles Bukowski, Septuagenarian Stew
9 tags
“All that you see will soon perish; those who witness this perishing will soon...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
4 tags
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
16 tags
“That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the...”
– Arthur Shopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
“Remember, one who enjoys more is bound to suffer more because he becomes very...”
– Osho (via lucifelle)
4 tags
“Don’t treat your life as if you were going to die tomorrow, treat it as if...”
5 tags
“Material things and beliefs are tools to gain certain experiences.”
– introskeptic
“Whatever we build will fall, whatever we accomplish will be forgotten, whatever...”
– Lazyyogi (via myartisnotforsale)
6 tags
“Emotions and thoughts come and go like the wind, just like everything else in...”
– introskeptic
5 tags
“The worst ilusion, is the ilusion of separation. It is the root of all egoistic...”
– introskeptic
“Every drama in your outer life is a reflection of a drama in your inner life....”
– Orin (via merh-soy)
“For that is an absurd position that is taken by some people, who say that they...”
– Cicero, De Officiis, Book III (via pseudobollocks) 