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Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. And so was God, because as soon as there's a past tense, there has to be a past before the past, and you keep going back in time until you get to I don't know, and that's what God is. It's what you don't know - the dark, the hidden, the underside of the visible, and all because we have grammar, and grammar would be impossible without the FoxP2 gene; so God is a brain mutation, and that gene is the same one birds need for singing. So music is built in, Glenn said: It's knitted into us. It would be very hard to amputate it because it's an essential part of us, like water. ↗


— Margaret Atwood


#religion #scifi #the-year-of-the-flood #imagination

It’s clear that if we use the mind attentively, mental power is increased, and if we concentrate the mind in the moment, it is easier to coordinate mind and body. But in terms of mind and body unity, is there something we can concentrate on that will reliably aid us in discovering this state of coordination? In Japan, and to some degree other Asian countries, people have historically focused mental strength in the hara (abdomen) as a way of realizing their full potential. Japan has traditionally viewed the hara as the vital center of humanity in a manner not dissimilar to the Western view of the heart or brain. I once read that years ago Japanese children were asked to point to the origin of thoughts and feelings. They inevitably pointed toward the abdominal region. When the same question was asked of American children, most pointed at their heads or hearts. Likewise, Japan and the West have commonly held differing views of what is physical power or physical health, with Japan emphasizing the strength of the waist and lower body and Western people admiring upper body power. (Consider the ideal of the sumo wrestler versus the V-shaped Western bodybuilder with a narrow waist and broad shoulders.) However, East and West also hold similar viewpoints regarding the hara, and we’re perhaps not as dissimilar as some might imagine. For instance, hara ga nai hito describes a cowardly person, “a person with no hara.” Sounds similar to our saying that so-and-so “has no guts,” doesn’t it? ↗


— H.E. Davey


#body #brain #coordination-of-mind-and-body #hara #heart

فذاكَ الأب الرائع المنصرف إلى تفكيك الخيمة ومساعدة أطفاله على ارتداء الألبسة الصوفية، كان يودّ أن يضاجع سكرتيرته، ولكنه خائف من ردّ فعل زوجته. وتلك الزوجة التي تتمنى أن تعمل وتحقق استقلالها، كانت خائفة من زوج متسلط. وأولئك الأطفال، أمِن الممكن أن يكونوا على هذه الدرجة من اللطف والتهذيب لولا خوفهم من العقاب؟ وتلك الفتاة التي تقرأ كتاباً، وحيدةً تحت مظلة، خائفة في أعماقها من احتمال بقائها عانساً. وخائف أيضاً ذلك الشاب الذي يرغم نفسه على تدريب مكثَّف تلبية لرغبة والديه. والنادل الذي يقدم الكوكتيلات الاستوائية لزبائن أثرياء، مبتسماً رغم خوفه من أن يُصرف. والفتاة الخائفة من انتقادات الجيران، ما يجعلها تعدُل عن حلمها بأن تغدو راقصة، فتتابع دراسة الحقوق. والعجوز الذي يقول أنه يشعر بالصحة والنشاط منذ توقف عن التدخين والشراب، في حين أن فزعه من الموت يصفر مثل الريح في أذنيه. والزوجان اللذان يقفزان في رذاذ الأمواج، إنَّ ضحكهما يُخفي خوفهما من أن يصبحا عجوزين عليلين لا جدوى منهما. والرجل ذو الجلد البرونزي الذي يروح ويجيء بقاربه الآلي بمحاذاة الشاطيء، مبتسماً ملوّحاً بذراعه، إنه خائق من فكرة أن توظيفاته في البورصة يمكن أن تنهار في أي لحظة. وصاحب الفندق الذي يراقب من مكتبه هذا المشهد الفردوسي، ويسهر على راحة زبائنه وسعادتهم، إنه مؤرق بالخوف من أن يكتشف محضّلو الضرائب التزوير في حساباته. كل الموجودين على هذا الشاطيء الرائع، هم في نهاية هذا النهار، فريسة للخوف: خوف من العُزلة، من الظُلمة التي تملأ المخيلة بالشياطين، من يوم الحساب، من تعليقات الآخرين، من الحب والصدود، من طلب زيادة، من قبول دعوة، من الضرب في المجهول، من عدم النجاح في إتقان لغة أجنبية، من العجز عن التأثير في الآخرين، من الشيخوخة، من الموت، من أن تُرى العيوب ولا تُرى المزايا، ومن ألّا تُرى لا العيوب ولا المزايا ↗


— باولو كويلو


#inspirational #life #inspirational

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew. ↗


— Libba Bray


#heartache #love #death

If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait. ↗


— Benny Anderson


#content #engaged #get #get married #got

Hear the other side. ↗


— Saint Augustine


#other #side

I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all." "I returned to public life on your advice, madam," he said stiffly. "Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin. ↗


— Iain Pears


#doctrine #evil #good #injustice #killing

Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh. ↗


— Peig Sayers


#death #eagla #fear #gaeilge #ireland

I know my own heart to be entirely English. ↗


— Princess Anne


#entirely #heart #i #know #my own

For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart. ↗


— Kim Harrison


#barnabas #heart #madison #rule #sour






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