But to this notion of bloodletting and the material transmutation of forms there corresponds an idea of purification. It has to do with isolating the very essence of any sensual ecstasy experienced momentarily and individually by the
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“the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn’t often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.”
― Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
― Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
“Space, time, and objects might just be aspects of a sensory desktop specific to Homo sapiens. They might not be deep insights into objective truths, just convenient conventions that have evolved to allow us to survive in our niche.”
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
“Injuries are our best teachers.”
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“By undercutting fundamentalism and intolerance, education would curtail violence and war. By empowering women, it would curb poverty and the population explosion.”
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
“One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.”
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
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