"When you are simply observing your breath, you are perceiving an automatically unfolding process in your body. By contrast, when you are observing your wandering mind, you are also experiencing the spontaneous activity of a process in your body."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Thomas Metzinger

#Mind Quotes #Body Quotes #Spontaneous Quotes

“I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.”
“Various people have put forth that love is the scene of two, that it's not about unity, it's about two absolutely disjunct positions encountering each other. So here, even with something like sex-- what [that song's] about-- you could never become one.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.”
“I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.”
“Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.”
“I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.”
“what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted”
“In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.”

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