Maybe meditation could be a path to honing one's mind rather than only a means to remove the mental chatter. His assistants stated that his motors and such worked the very first time being built. Fortunately many of them were documented for the purpose of obtaining patents. Others, like Tesla, honed his mind to the point he didn't need paper to work out the details of constructing his inventions. The choice is yours, to let yourself be controlled or to control yourself. It is possible to direct your thoughts away from mulling things over and over again or other chatter and onto constructing something worthwhile. Referring to "mental chatter"Įither way, it demonstrates a choice of choosing not to control what you think about. "Things are not what we say they are, that, for example, the word 'water' is not itself drinkable.From the description: "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except faults, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions." Some commenters say that is a misquote and state that it should be "thoughts" instead of "faults". "The destination of life is this eternal moment." ♥ 25. "You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." ♥ 24. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet." ♥ 23. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. "The desire for security and the fear of insecurity are the same thing. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it." ♥ 22. "No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. They are especially like the arts of music and dancing, which unfold themselves without aiming at future destinations." ♥ 21. "Our own organisms are much more like art than like business, politics, or religion. "As one and the same pain may be described either as a hot pang or as a cold sting, so the descriptions of an experience may take forms that seem to be completely opposed." ♥ 20. "Individual differences express the unity, as branches, leaves, and flowers from the same plant, and the love between the members is the realization of their basic interdependence." ♥ 19. Here I find my own inner workings functioning of themselves, spontaneously, like the rotation of the heavenly bodies and the drifting of clouds." ♥ 18. The more deeply I go into myself, the more I am not myself, and yet this is the very heart of me. "Odd as it may sound, the ego finds that its own center and nature is beyond itself. "When a bird sings it doesn't sing for the advancement of music." ♥ 17. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. "To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. "I owe my solitude to other people." ♥ 15. "Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." ♥ 14. "Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present." ♥ 13. "The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." ♥ 12. But we must not suffer over the suffering." ♥ 11. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had." ♥ 10. "The only Zen you'll find on mountain tops is the Zen you bring up there with you." ♥ 9. "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." ♥ 8. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain." ♥ 7. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play." ♥ 6. "This is the real secret of life-to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And yet everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." ♥ 5. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. "The meaning of life is just to be alive. "No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen." ♥ 4. "There never is, or was, or will be anything except the present." ♥ 3. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.
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