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As Marcus Aurelius long ago said, ‘Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.’
The Moral Animal
Robert Wright
So if you’re a Buddhist philosopher, you may feel vindicated. But you may also feel puzzled. Why would natural selection design a brain that leaves people deluded about themselves? One answer is that if we believe something about ourselves, that will help us convince other people to believe it. And certainly it’s to our benefit—or, more precisely, it would have been to the benefit of the genes of our hunter-gatherer ancestors—to convince the world that we’re coherent, consistent actors who have things under control.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
To learn from your mistakes first laugh at your mistakes.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
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