Playing with Perspectives

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True siddhis:

 

 

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Thanks for being the sanest mod on here dont let their pussyfied personas impact you thanks 🙏

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4 hours ago, NoSelfSelf said:

Thanks for being the sanest mod on here dont let their pussyfied personas impact you thanks 🙏

OK thanks.

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Put simply, people consistently act inconsistently, unaware of the contradiction between their espoused theory and their theory-in-use, between the way they think they are acting and the way they really act.

— Chris Argyris

Read this: https://hbr.org/1991/05/teaching-smart-people-how-to-learn

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Start consciously creating and cultivating something now.

It could be anything, really: an observation, question, plan, goal, sketch, poem, song, dish, workout, meditation, book, hobby, curiosity, mood, skill, business, relationship, project, understanding, disposition, or attitude.

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Week’s over. See you next Monday.

- Human brain

 

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You need to experience something new! That is to say, merely going through the motions in your mind isn’t the point of growth or consciousness. You have to encounter, see, notice--become aware of--something new within your experience. To experience something differently--toward greater clarity, freedom, and truth.

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Your relationship to "the obvious" determines your degree of openness.

What do you overlook about yourself, reality, culture, health, creativity, communication, emotion, and so on? What is it that you believe? What aspects of your experience do you consider to be obvious?

Questioning requires getting over the seemingly automatic and arrogant posture we often adopt in regards to our knowledge. Our experience of reality is quickly deemed known and "true." We interpret, make sense of, categorize things. We value having a solid sense of self and reality. Yet, deep down, there lingers a sense that this relationship may be artificial. Opening up beyond the way we currently hold things tends to undermine our sense of certainty.

What is it that we claim to know? Is it a personal encounter with something? Is it a dispassionate, unbiased observation? How can we move toward a more authentic experience of things? 

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Start “from scratch,” with nothing to stand on but your own experience. Face the blank page, so to speak. No external input of any kind--no borrowed ideas or extraneous concepts. Simply confront the experience at hand and convey it as it is--without distortion, preference, withdrawal, or bias.

There are many ways to approach this exercise, but one I favor involves exploring what true creativity is. Also, choose a concrete subject beforehand so that your mind has something to focus on--for example, your experience of an emotion.

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It’s not that the truth invalidates you; it’s that it only serves itself, and the offense is of your own making, based on how you relate to it. This presupposes that you’re taking yourself seriously and giving what’s true a backseat.

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

— Theodore Roosevelt.

 

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