In the mind’s arena, willpower (a facet of “ego”) represents a wrestling match between top and bottom systems. Willpower keeps us focused on our goals despite the tug of our impulses, passions, habits, and cravings. This cognitive control represents a “cool” mental system that makes an effort to pursue our[…]
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124/365 In the mind’s arena
In the mind’s arena, willpower (a facet of “ego”) represents a wrestling match between top and bottom systems. Willpower keeps us focused on our goals despite the tug of our impulses, passions, habits, and cravings. This cognitive control represents a “cool” mental system that makes an effort to pursue our[…]
123/365 Top-down attention
The best response, he concluded, is to pay active top-down attention to the present moment and to positive thoughts and feelings, such as kindness and compassion. From “Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life”, by Winifred Gallagher
122/365 Everything we have is by chance
Everything we have is by chance and the higher up in life you go, the greater the fall is that awaits you. From the book On The Shortness Of Life: De Brevitate Vitae by Seneca
121/365 Without focus, consciousness is in a state of chaos
To pursue mental operations to any depth, a person has to learn to concentrate attention. Without focus, consciousness is in a state of chaos. The normal condition of the mind is one of informational disorder: random thoughts chase one another instead of lining up in logical causal sequences. Unless one[…]
120/365 How to banish negative emotions
115/365 You are not what you have
109/365 Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind
Quote from The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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