What most people imagine when they picture "talking to yourself" is like watching a movie where you're the main character. Yet watching a movie is the opposite of being talked to as the movie is a blind broadcast.
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Thought Pointer Reference: Turn off the movie and shut up to hear God.
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Subtlety Discrimination is not a valid substitution for sensitivity. Sensitivity is experience to life. How deeply you feel things. Just b/c you can identify all 100 flavors in a beer or wine doesn't mean you're actually "feeling" it.
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They're *usually* correlated because feeling life fully means you can feel the pea under the mattress and so can become a mattress design expert.
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What often happens is that intensity is traded for subtlety. You know more about a smaller area because you've withdrawn light & power from a wider area to create this focused beam.
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Ironically, having a lot of projects or stuff you want to do can actually SUCK the life away from the everyday. Not even 1000 laser dots can replace the gentle glow of a candle despite each being the same power.
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It's one who turns everything into a project. Life is spent running around from one mental game to another. Real world, with all its ugly imperfectness, is just an obstacle to get around and see less of.
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It's a desperate attempt to make the night day by filling the world with stars. A project in vain as not even millions and billions have worked. Still... often the reason day does not come is because it requires the sacrifice of all those stars.
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If I'm spending so much energy distinguishing between subtle differences that I can't enjoy life anymore shouldn't I instead let go of some differences?
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I do this consciously when I decide to eat junk food. It's quite fun to be in moments of gluttony. I don't feel bad about it b/c it was controlled gluttony. Just like how controlled aggression is protection, this too can be virtuous when controlled.
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