Everyday life puts us in a very peculiar position - it puts us in the peculiar position of having to support, maintain and promote a proposition that is astonishingly dumb, astonishingly lame, astonishingly ‘not worth the effort’. We are obliged to continually ‘talk the situation up’, even though we’re on…| Intrinsicspace.me
Purposeful doing is the repetition of a bias, the reiteration of ingrained prejudice. We get a good feeling from engaging in goal-orientated behaviour because it’s purposeful, because it’s progressive and constructive in nature, because it’s ‘meaningful’ rather than being ‘aimless’ or ‘merely random’, and yet all we’re really doing with our purposeful doing is that […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
It's not that we should ‘do something about fear’ so as to show that we're not afraid of it (or – if we can - vanquish it entirely) but rather that the helpful thing to do is to do nothing about it, nothing at all. Anything we were to do…| Intrinsicspace.me
To acknowledge (or become aware of) a mental limitation is to go beyond it - to not acknowledge it is to live an illusion. If this sounds too easy, too simple, it isn't - it isn't easy at all because - unconsciously - we have the greatest possible resistance to…| Intrinsicspace.me