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Putting great philosophy into practice in your own life
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“Too much thinking is not solved by more thinking.”
“The person is stuck in the thinking about, the researching about, or…
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Meditation as practice for everyday thinking
“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived…
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“Pain is inevitable”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think,…
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“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
“If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The…
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“What I cannot create, I do not understand”
Nobel-Prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman was a master teacher as well as brilliant…
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“Happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.”
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man…
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“Too much thinking is not solved by more thinking.”
“The person is stuck in the thinking about, the researching about, or the talking about. It doesn’t matter because the end result is still inaction. No amount of discussion, thinking, or research results in an actional decision. Too much thinking is not solved by more thinking.” ― Sally M. Winston, Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety: A CBT…
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Meditation as practice for everyday thinking
“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” —Alan Watts [full quote here] Meditation has an image problem. Everyone thinks of gurus and mountain-tops and the sound of wind chimes in a far-eastern courtyard. But meditation is just a way of focusing your mind. That method…
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“Pain is inevitable”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.” —Haruki Murakami You can buy Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk…
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“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
“If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of…
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“What I cannot create, I do not understand”
Nobel-Prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman was a master teacher as well as brilliant thinker. After his death, these words were found at the top of the blackboard he used to lecture from at the California Institute Of Technology: What I cannot create, I do not understand” —Dick Feynman They encapsulate his belief that if he was…
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“Happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.”
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul. —Aristotle One of the longest excerpts shared on the Heroic website is from The Nicomachean Ethics, a collection of Aristotle’s lectures either edited by or dedicated to Aristotle’s son Nichomachus. The…
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