John-Roger, Peter McWilliams
Maybe you are more than your mind?
This is a difficult concept, on which stands to smash his head fans to speculate. "Man is distinguished from the animal of its superior intellect, he developed mind" - they say.
Maybe yes, maybe not. Let's try to understand.
The mind is often too full of opinions and facts about past situations, to accurately assess the current. For most people the work of the mind is to prove what we already know enough and do not need to know anything else.
According to John Kenneth Galbraith, "faced with the need to make a choice between the change in his views and the opportunity to prove that there is no need to do so, almost all choose the latter."
The stability of the mind, by the way, a good thing. It keeps us from becoming weak, "spineless", bendable each new information coming to us. However, going beyond a certain line, the mind is closed to any new information from any source. It is obvious that the closed mind open to learning. Education is the assimilation and integration of new ideas, concepts and behaviors.
You might be interested in: "And my mind is closed?" If you are interested in such things, then probably not. Closed mind, when confronted with the notion that the mind is not a "peak of perfection," ignores this information. As Dorothy Parker said, "this book can not be simply put aside, it should fling with full force." Anyone who is not open to new ideas, rarely read books that contain new ideas.
We do not intend to belittle the role of the mind. Mind - this is an invaluable tool for sorting, organizing, conceptualizing and processing. Mind - this is an amazing servant who makes poor host.
Your mind must always go through the swap, even when you shake hands or perform any other actions. I have long developed the ability to do one thing while thinking something else entirely.
Richard Nixon
(To be continued)
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