One half of all human gene expression is in the brain?
4th patriarch of Zen, Tao-hsin: "What is the method of liberation?"
3rd patriarch, Seng-ts'an: "Who binds you?"
4th patriarch: "No one binds me."
3rd patriarch: "Why then should you seek liberation?"
"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young." -Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)
Freud's goal: Change psychotic depression into ordinary human unhappiness.
Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one--but the light bulb must want to change.
Do not be "broadly ignorant", accepting by rote everything you have to and leaving the rest alone.
A narrow place seems wide to the narrow-minded.
"I am cursed with a somewhat forbidding Scandinavian manner, with a restraint that spells stuffiness to a lot of people...inside I am mush, full of a lot of almost bathetic sentimentality about this country, the Midwest, Abraham Lincoln and the English language."--Eric Sevareid, Look Magazine, 1965.
Why not harmony in music?
the picturesque in art?
heroes in literature?
beauty in poetry?
humane ideals in history and politics?
Why does "intellectual honesty" = ugliness and offensive immorality?
A handful of useless titles:
- Yen Master
- The Electric Wool Man
- Incense and Porpoises
- Mental Vomit
I now have no idea why this stuff was lumped together.
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