I think therefore I am...Well said, but I was wondering whether we or may be some of us overuse it. I know Descartes did not mean it in the context that I am referring it to. But yes, sometimes I believe life would be less complicated if we reduce, if not completely eliminate thinking about everything under the Sun. Trying to answer every question, analyzing every incident however trivial and insignificant, introspecting our faults. Does anyone else also feel the same. Exhausted after unnecessary solitary brain activity. The Unstoppable frenzy of mindless or rather mindful activities. It could be related to your work or your life in general and sometimes even about the universe surrounding you.
And there are two aspects that make it worse...One, that you are sometimes not even aware of it and two (which follows the first point), it goes on parallely with other things that you are doing. And thus it simply tires you coz you have not even tried to stop it as you were not aware of it. And naturally the other task that you were doing gets affected too.
The so called extension of the quote, Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum could be even worse (again the quote is not in same reference completely). Doubt accelerates thinking. It does the wide range of permutations of 'ifs and buts' to sometimes make you reach the conclusion and sometimes drive you away from it.
There is no push button to stop it, no regulator to tone it down. It takes practice to hold a leash over it. As for me... I have not even begun.
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STOP! DON'T BEGIN!
On a side note,
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/04/08/
very true! and things might worsen if you get like-minded friends !
@Onkar
Perfect motto...Calvin is GOD
@Mandar
Cudn't agree more
start singing, the next time :)
For most of us, our thoughts rule our mind. But we would like our mind to rule our thoughts. Perhaps the tendency to oppose this rumbling train of thoughts is also common among most of us. That is what we do when we wish to concentrate on something. Another approach might be to not to oppose, to not to resist. To be passively aware of your train of thoughts, its speed, its direction, and to smile at it. Whether you like it or not, even the uncontrolled train of thoughts is a marvel of nature. What I've recently noticed is that when we don't resist such things, they don't resist us. I'm trying this these days, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And when it doesn't, I try to smile at it! :-)
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