“We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we're looking for, or what we already know...what we see is amazingly limited.”
“Try and set yourself the task not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute.”
Source: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
“If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is dependent upon the mechanical adjustments of his body, and that inversely his body is subjected with certain limitations to his will, then it only remains for him to make one assumption more, namely, that this mutual interdependence between the spiritual and the material is itself also dependent on law, and he has discovered the bond by which the science of the matter and the science of consciousness are united into a single whole.”
Source: Unconscious Memory
“Nothing in the world has a greater power to enslave than fiction. ~ Aarush Kashyap”
Source: #iAm16iCan
“DENIAL
Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.”
Source: Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and Psychology
“Suicide may be a choice, but not as much as it is expected when everything else fails.”
Source: Overcoming Depression: Pragmatic Solutions to Deal with Suicidal Thoughts
“The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.”
Source: A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood
“A person will complain about his problems, unwilling to receive solutions, while demanding attention trough a victimization, reflecting lack of responsibility.”
Source: Overcoming Depression: Pragmatic Solutions to Deal with Suicidal Thoughts
“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves us very little respite for inner quiet. And we leave precious little room for ourselves anyway just to be, without having to run around doing things all the time. Our actions are all too frequently driven rather than undertaken in awareness, driven by those perfectly ordinary thoughts and impulses that run through the mind like a coursing river, if not a waterfall. We get caught up in the torrent and it winds up submerging our lives as it carries us to places we may not wish to go and may not even realize we are headed for.
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us rather than to tyrannize us.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life