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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” – Marting Heidegger Continue reading
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Friday’s Quote
“Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It’s a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle – for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out Continue reading
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Discover New Examples
“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don’t know half as much as I think I do.” ~ Paul Auster Continue reading
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Writing
“It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, “Read,” but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or “Don’t read, don’t think, just write,” and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you’re going to be a writer, you’ll probably take Continue reading
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Writing/Meaning/Thinking
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” ~ Joan Didion Continue reading
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Calm State Of Mind
alone at his favorite outdoor table while quietly thinking … blocking out the sounds of the traffic and people passing by … completely focused on the other world that he knows will never happen Continue reading
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Life Is Too Short
“I don’t care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.” ~ Amy Winehouse, Singer-songwriter, Born: September 14, 1983 – Died: July 23, 2011 Continue reading
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Morning Quote
“My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don’t pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.” ~ Vivien Leigh Continue reading
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Thinking #2
felt the pinch therefore I exist Continue reading
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Thinking
brewed coffee makes a great statement vs instant, it just doesn’t make the cut Continue reading
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Climbing Out Of Bed
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. ~Charles Bukowski Continue reading
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Wrong Planet
“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?” ~ George Harrison – Born: February 25, 1943 – Died: November 29, 2001 Continue reading
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Majority Of Men
“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher – 1788-1860 Continue reading
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Realistic Fiction
“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin – Author, Born: October 21, 1929 Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Thinking positive about one’s self, is a good thing. Continue reading
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Problems of the world…..
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist Continue reading
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Thinking Silently
thinking silently a smattering of thoughts are swirling in my mind nothing bad nothing harmful nothing slanderous just normal thinking that I usually do throughout the course of the day Continue reading
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Thinking
brainstorming + bottomless mugs of strong black coffee >>> produces wild and wacky ideas Continue reading
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Just Thinking
nobody ever said that writing comes easy Continue reading
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I Write Differently ~ Franz Kafka
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~ Franz Kafka Continue reading
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Franz Kafka Quotation: Darkness
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~Franz Kafka Continue reading
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Thinking
“Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.” – Slavoj Žižek Continue reading
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Today
Today was a strange day Woke this morning thinking that today was Saturday but it turned out to be Friday IT was eerily a quiet day odd for a Friday Come tomorrow it being Saturday I should be back to a normal human self Continue reading
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Thinking
“Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” – Albert Einstein Continue reading
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Three Things
“We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.” – Jim Valvano Continue reading
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Robots
I don’t thing the robots are taking over. I think the men who plays with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools. -Ray Bradbury Continue reading
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Mainstream Media
Born: March 24, 1919 Continue reading
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Life
Life consists in what a man is thinking all day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Margaret Mead On Thinking
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Jack Kerouac
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds. Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Thinking
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Thinking
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato Continue reading
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Just Thinking
There’s the saying(s) “time goes by to fast,’ “where did the time go?’ “time sure flies when you are having fun,” etc, etc. If you ever want time to go by slow, pull up a chair, sit, relax and give the clock your undivided attention, and witness time passing by. Call it meditation by clock. Continue reading
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A Pondering Moment
Sitting on the couch writing this post while watching TV or is the TV watching me Could it be I am doing both It could be that I am multitasking Its not really a complicated thing to do What I have been watching for most of the day Blue Bloods and Seinfeld Speaking of Seinfeld Continue reading
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George Carlin Quote
I do this real moron thing, it’s called thinking, and I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinion. George Carlin Continue reading
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The Paper Napkin Chronicles
This work A Pondering Mind is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Continue reading
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Existence
“You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.” –Frank Herbert Continue reading
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Just Thinking
Snow is white. When it melts, it’s colorless drops of water. —— A Pondering Mind 9/20/2014 Continue reading
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Just Thinking
There are no two clouds that look the same. Continue reading
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Reality
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. — Thich Nhat Hanh Continue reading
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We may believe ……
We may believe that we know what another person is thinking, but most often our efforts at ‘mind reading’ are projections of our own inner, self-centered concerns. — Susan Edmiston, Leonard Scheff Continue reading
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“Stop thinking,…” – Lao Tzu
“Stop thinking, and end your problems.” – Lao Tzu Continue reading
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Our Life Is Shaped By Our Mind… – The Buddha
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. – The Buddha Continue reading
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