“Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.” TryingMindHumansMadeFeelingsProblemRealityMightPainSleepStupidFineRainNegativeTablesAddBusyReactionsKneesHuman MindKeep TryingBumpsPicnicsNegative Feelings Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!” NeedsFeelingsRunningHoursSleepBusyLove Feeling Author:Lauren Conrad
“I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.” ReasonFeelingsLike YouEthicsBusyGuiltyWork EthicProtestantsBuzzFeeling GuiltyProtestant Work Ethic Author:Jonny Greenwood
“Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.” FeelingsSorryBusyHippieFeeling Sorry Author:Robert Anton Wilson