"Maybe I can redirect some energy from my head to my heart. Maybe I have put on my rose-coloured glasses more often. Maybe I’m here just to bask in the beauty and wonder and enchantedness of the world."
My thoughts as of late the way I see it with an "overactive mind" like an addiction to thoughts is asking how to overcome any addictive behaviour, what action can I take to get better of my addiction & usually what comes up is "surrendering" becoming powerless & tending to something greater than myself just that alone I already feel something, I actually really suffered by going inward bringing up stuff that your subconscious mind is there to do as to protect you so you can live out your life (if anything leave it to a professionals) it can be harmful to do this alone, there's a lovely piece called "this is water" by David foster wallace that resonates so deep👇
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.”
This is amazing, Tommy.
One of my favorite parts:
"Maybe I can redirect some energy from my head to my heart. Maybe I have put on my rose-coloured glasses more often. Maybe I’m here just to bask in the beauty and wonder and enchantedness of the world."
Thanks Sandra 😊
Wouldn't have gotten to this essay without your stellar editing.
I appreciate you.
My thoughts as of late the way I see it with an "overactive mind" like an addiction to thoughts is asking how to overcome any addictive behaviour, what action can I take to get better of my addiction & usually what comes up is "surrendering" becoming powerless & tending to something greater than myself just that alone I already feel something, I actually really suffered by going inward bringing up stuff that your subconscious mind is there to do as to protect you so you can live out your life (if anything leave it to a professionals) it can be harmful to do this alone, there's a lovely piece called "this is water" by David foster wallace that resonates so deep👇
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.”