Tag: mind

• Maria on Living in the Age of Anxiety

  Another thoughtful piece from Maria on life (and living) in the modern era. I particularly enjoyed this quote from Alan Watts: The “primary consciousness,” the basic mind which knows reality rather than ideas about it, does not know the future. It lives completely in the present, and perceives nothing more than what is at this moment. The…

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  February 8, 2014

  Learning, Life, Psychology, Reason

  Alan Watts, anxiety, brain pickings, concentration, East, future, Happiness, learning, Life, Living, Maria Popova, mind, mindfulness, philosophy, presence, productivity, Psychology, West

• Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy? (TED)

  

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  January 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Mind, Psychology, Talks

  affective, amnesiac, brain, choose, cortex, Dan Gilbert, Freedom, Happiness, mind, Monet prints, natural happiness, psychological immune system, Psychology, Stumbling on Happiness, synthetic happiness, TED, TED talks, want