the innumerable flutterings..................

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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"The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization."

-Ram Dass, as quoted from here

Working on it...........................

     Hesiod, the poet, said that "the best treasure is a sparing tongue."  Robert Greene considers it a law of power:  Always Say Less Than Necessary.
     We talk because we think it's helping, whereas in reality it's making things hard for us.  If our spouse is venting, we want to tell them what they should do.  In fact, all they actually want us to do is hear them.  In other situations, the world is trying to give us feedback or input, but we try to talk ourselves out of the problem - only to make it worse.
      So today, will you be part of the problem or part of the solution?   Will you hear the wisdom of the world or drown it out with more noise?

-Ryan Holiday, from today's entry in The Daily Stoic:  366 Meditations On Wisdom, Perseverance, And The Art Of Living

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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

-Cato the Younger

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Chattered on....................

Still, my mind chattered on, as if the spider monkey had taken acid.  My mind is my main problem almost all the time.  I wish I could leave it in the fridge when I go out, but it likes to come with me.  I have tried to get it to take up a nice hobby, like macrame, but it prefers to think about things, and jot down what annoys it.

-Anne Lamott,  Plan B:  Further Thoughts on Faith

Math even I can understand................

If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. 
Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

-Albert Einstein

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The Beach Boys................................................Hushabye

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“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.” 
-Dale Carnegie