The mind, it occurs to me, is an engine. There is an ambient mode in which the mind sits idling, before there is information. Some minds idle in a kind of dreading crouch, waiting to be offended. Others stand up straight, eyes slightly wide, expecting to be pleasantly surprised. Some minds, imagining the great What Is Out There, imagine it intends doom for them; others imagine there is something out there that may be suffering and in need of their help.
Which is right?
Neither.
Both.
Maybe all of our politics is simply neurology writ large. Maybe there are a finite number of idling modes. Maybe there are just two broad modes, and out of this fact comes our current division.
Tags: brains division minds neurology reactions
You have the ability to choose your reactions.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life truth perspective ability reactions
If you are upset with another’s words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul
Jeremy AldanaTags: anger awareness reactions sounding-board
We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
Jeremy AldanaTags: life questions reactions
Can an absence of action be construed as a negative action?
Tamar CohenSuccessfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.
Robert KeganTags: society values true false tendencies reactions traditions lifestyles
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: understanding seeing calm intellectualism reactions
When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.
T.F. HodgeTags: belief conscience determination quotes conviction moral reactions test intrusion demoral mitigation spontaneitynaity
When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger.
Tony AttwoodTags: anger anger-management aspergers reactions asd
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: philosopher reaction observation interpretation artistic training philosophy-of-life observe reactions human-existence stimulation reality-of-life adam-gottbetter
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