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books:awake_its_your_turn:chapter_16 [2023-10-22 20:19] – awfkibooks:awake_its_your_turn:chapter_16 [2023-10-22 23:55] (current) – awfki
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 a little smile a little smile
  
-Hilighted because I am a huge proponent of the little smile.+Highlighted because I am a huge proponent of [[ideas:the little smile]].
  
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 > We often circumvent natural curiosity by moving our attention to a familiar but artificial mental construct when we find ourselves in the unknown. We do this to feel some sense of certainty. This means that when faced with the unknown, we often cling to old, habituated patterns of thinking to help us avoid admitting to ourselves that we really don’t know. > We often circumvent natural curiosity by moving our attention to a familiar but artificial mental construct when we find ourselves in the unknown. We do this to feel some sense of certainty. This means that when faced with the unknown, we often cling to old, habituated patterns of thinking to help us avoid admitting to ourselves that we really don’t know.
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 +H w/o c.
  
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 > inner movie screen > inner movie screen
  
-Highlighted because of Mooji.+Highlighted because of [[ideas:Mooji]]. 
 +<blockquote> 
 +whatever images may come in the mind are just images on the screen of consciousness they do not affect you 
 +be like the screen on which images are projected if there is a huge fire on the screen, the screen is not burnt by it 
 +if there is a waterfall the screen will not be wet 
 +<cite>-- Transcript excerpt from [[https://youtu.be/MuVCFEqv1AY?si=KQUbUXc4kQOtgQLR|Mooji ♥ Nothing Here But You ◦ Guided Meditation]]\\ 
 +(quoted part is around 5:12)</cite> 
 +</blockquote>
  
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 This is brilliant and should have been strewn through the entire book, especially that shit chapter on emotions. This is brilliant and should have been strewn through the entire book, especially that shit chapter on emotions.
  
-Your thoughts _and emotions_ should be viewed as if someone handed you a message with the thought or emotion on it. It happened so fast you didn't even see the person, maybe you just put your hand in your pocket and found a scrap of paper. Either way you wouldn't take the thought to be "you", it's something that just appeared, it's not "you" or "yours" and you can take it's advice or not. The most important is probably that you pay attention. To what? Yes, exactly!+Your thoughts //and emotions// should be viewed as if someone handed you a message with the thought or emotion on it. It happened so fast you didn't even see the person, maybe you just put your hand in your pocket and found a scrap of paper. Either way you wouldn't take the thought to be "you", it's something that just appeared, it's not "you" or "yours" and you can take it's advice or not. The most important is probably that you pay attention. To what? Yes, exactly!
  
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-> Concluding+> Concluding FIXME needs context
  
 H w/o c. H w/o c.
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 > There will be effortless, brilliant clarity > There will be effortless, brilliant clarity
  
-Be careful that you don't want this.+Be careful that you don't //want// this.
  
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