We keep on switching through the channels of our minds and never stop long enough on one specific channel. We pay attention half-heartedly on almost everything we do these days. We live in an activity illusion and think that ‘busyness’ is equal to good business. Busyness is sometimes just procrastination in disguise. Busyness may make you feel good and make you think you are more productive but when we look back at the end of the day we realize we haven’t done anything worthwhile.

- Unlimited memory, by Kevin Horsely

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb

- Pythagoras

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Once, an elderly general practitioner consulted me because of his severe depression. He could not overcome the loss of his wife who had died two years before and whom he had loved above all else. Now how could I help him? What should I tell him? I refrained from telling him anything, but instead confronted him with a question, "What would have happened, Doctor, if you had died first, and your wife would have had to survive without you?:" "Oh," he said, "for her this would have been terrible; how she would have suffered!" Whereupon I replied, "You see, Doctor, such a suffering has been spared her, and it is you who have spared her this suffering; but now, you have to pay for it by surviving and mourning her." He said no word but shook my hand and calmly left the office

- Viktor Frankl

I could only find three kinds of business in the world - mine, yours, and God's. Whose business are you in?

- Byron Katie

بينَ القُرى المُتهَيّبات خُطاي و المُدن الغَريبة
غَنيتُ تُربتُكَ الحَبيبة
وحَملتُها فَـ أنا المَسيح يَجرُّ في المَنفى صَليبه..
- بَدر شاكر السياب

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When someone accuses you of being judgemental, they are judging you.

evisceration (n.)

إنتزاع الأحشاء الداخلية للإنسان (خلال عملية التشريح مثلاً)

عندما اتخذ مؤسس الفلسفة الحديثة رينيه ديكارت مبدأ الشك لليقين، كان أبو حامد الغزالي قد سبقه في ذلك بعدة قرون، وإذا كان دانتي قد اقتبس فكرة “الكوميديا الإلهية” من كتاب المعري “رسالة الغفران” بعد ترجمتها إلى اللغة اللاتينية، فإن الأخير كان أيضًا سبّاقًا بطرح “العدمية” قبل شوبنهاور والفلسفة الوجودية عمومًا وبزمن بعيد.
ولقد فضلنا المقارنة هنا بين أبي العلاء المعري والفيلسوف الألماني آرثر شوبنهاور دون غيره، لأن القاسم المشترك فيما بينهما هو التشاؤم من جهة وتقارب نوع ما للوضع الفردي حياتيًا من جهة أخرى.