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This clarification was necessary, because I will be explaining that the world we experience - which is the only one we can know - is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it. This implies that there is no simple and single, wholly mind-independent, truth. What I did not want to appear to be saying, at any cost, was that there is no such thing as truth; or that reality is simply made up at our whim.
Absolutely not.
The Matter With Things
Iain McGilchrist
This is an example of a pattern of tactical decision-making that we’ll call scan-to-task.* You look around and rapidly assign every open resource you see to an open problem.
Osho saw simplicity as a virtue, as a natural by-product of an intelligence that sees to the heart of issues, and does not get caught up in wasteful thinking and common indulgences.
Three Dangerous Magi
P. T. Mistlberger
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