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Walter posits that because a regular mirror reverses our image, we never get to see our real selves or make real eye contact – “right eye to right eye, left eye to left eye” – which subsequently feeds our brain “faulty information
Dazed • What Do You Really Look Like to Other People?
Where do you end, and the world begins? Explore your edges. Can you find one? Seek a center. Do you have one? We’re all an open system. Porous to the world. When I really look - with intention and attention - borders and boundaries disappear. There is no I or me - hiding in the place or space I take myself to be. Just a tiny dot in the collective
... See moreThe desire for recognition is probably a natural desire. So are you going to keep rolling downhill in order to receive recognition from others? Are you going to wear yourself down like a rolling stone, until everything is smoothed away? When all that is left is a little round ball, would that be “the real I”? It cannot be.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
To feel oneself as a separate ego, a source of action and awareness entirely separate and independent from the rest of the world, locked up inside a bag of skin, is in the view of the East a hallucination. You are not a stranger on the earth who has come into this world as the result of a fluke of nature, or as a spirit from somewhere outside natur
... See moreWatts,Alan • Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion (Alan Watts Love Of Wisdom)
In every crowd there are Diminishers and there are Illuminators. Diminishers make people feel small and unseen. They see other people as things to be used, not as persons to be befriended. They stereotype and ignore. They are so involved with themselves that other people are just not on their radar screen. Illuminators, on the other hand, have a pe
... See moreDavid Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Cain • You Are Always the Other Person
Consider the following, whatever stage of life you might be at. You are going to die. You know this, but consider for a moment what that means. The world you know is built upon your experiences. And you are the only person having those experiences. So your world is unique. When you look out at it, and the people in it, you do so through a filter th
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Plötzlich betrachtete ich meine Situation nicht mehr aus der Perspektive meiner »Ich-Geschichten«, sondern als Beobachter des »Ich«, der über diese egobasierten Erzählungen mit ihren starren Zuordnungen wie gut, schlecht oder gleichgültig erhaben war. Das »Ich«, das beobachtete, besaß keine spürbaren Ecken und Kanten, sondern war reines Bewusstsein
... See moreSteven C. Hayes • Kurswechsel im Kopf: Von der Kunst anzunehmen, was ist, und innerlich frei zu werden (German Edition)
Shunryu Suzuki addressed the assembly, “Each one of you is perfect the way you are and you can use a little improvement.”