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Tidbits
Periodic Tidbits
- A very helpful YouTube Channel “Kendo Innovation Laboratory” by Okada Morimasa (Kyoshi 8 dan) with many videos for those interested in learning more about kendo.
- A five-part series of brief articles on “Habits of Thinking” by Steve Schecter that I found very insightful and helpful.
- Habits of Thinking – How You Learn to Think the Way You Do
- Habits of Thinking – Through What Lens do You See the World
- Habits of Thinking – Clearing the lens 1) Observing the Self-Limiting Thought or Belief
- Habits of Thinking – Changing the Lens By Using “Debunking” Questions
- Habits of Thinking – Saying Your New Truth
Fixed Tidbits
Let the neck be free. Let the head go forward and up. And let the spine lengthen. – Judith Stransky on the Alexander Technique and what F. Matthias Alexander what would say.
I am slave to my habits, … I have surrendered my free will to the years of accumulated habits and the past deeds of my life have already marked out a path which threatens to imprison my future. – Og Mandino from The Greatest Salesman in the World
Most of us spend most our lives feeling like we are the thinker of our thoughts. Where is this thinker? Isn’t there only the next thought that arises? – Sam Harris at the 22:57 min mark of “Waking Up with Sam Harris – Looking for the Self (26 Minute Meditation) (26:16mins)”
The day you decide that you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than you are in the thoughts themselves – that is the day you will find your way out. – Michael Singer
Many people think that they experience life by thinking thoughts. That is not true. Thoughts are experienced like color, sounds and sensations. – Unknown wise one from Germany
Normally, one takes years or decades to arrive at anything like steady and spontaneous in-seeing. Nevertheless the method is quite simple and the same throughout. It consists of ceasing to overlook the looker – or rather, the absence of the looker. – Douglas Harding, p. 26, On Having No Head.
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