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#pain
A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt)
Listening to the body from the inside
When we go running or to the gym or to pilates class we may push through pain to exert our control over the body. When we eat, how often do we find that ‘our eyes are bigger than our stomach’ or that we are satisfying cravings that have little to do with what the body really…
Avicii Lyrics - Addicted To You
"Addicted To You
"Addicted To You" I don't know just how it happened, I let down my guard... Swore I'd never fall in love again But I fell hard. Guess I should have seen it coming, Caught me by surprise... I wasn't looking where I was going, I fell into your eyes. You came into my crazy world…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Back pain is ontologically subjective
Kant argued that all the things we think of as being objects in the world are only objects in our heads. And, as Searle would say in more modern philosophical language, these things have an ontologically subjective mode of existence. Another example could be your back pain. It…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
All pleasure is, in itself, neither good nor bad. Whence comes the conviction that one should not cause pain in others in order to feel pleasure oneself?
The Inoffensive in Badness.—Badness has not for its object the infliction of pain upon others but simply our own satisfaction as, for instance, in the case of thirst for vengeance or of nerve excitation. Every act of teasing shows what pleasure is caused by the display of our…
Judgement derives from Belief, Belief from Pleasure and Pain
The first step towards the logical is judgment, the essence of which, according to the best logicians, is belief. At the foundation of all beliefs lie sensations of pleasure or pain in relation to the apprehending subject. A third feeling, as the result of two prior, single…
Self Defence can justify any morality
Self Defence.—If self defence is in general held a valid justification, then nearly every manifestation of so called immoral egoism must be justified, too. Pain is inflicted, robbery or killing done in order to maintain life or to protect oneself and ward off harm. A man lies…
Justice is reprisal and exchange upon the basis of an approximate equality of power.
Origin of Justice.—Justice (reasonableness) has its origin among approximate equals in power, as Thucydides (in the dreadful conferences of the Athenian and Melian envoys) has rightly conceived. Thus, where there exists no demonstrable supremacy and a struggle leads but to…
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does right: that is, does what seems to him good (advantageous)
"Man Always Does Right."—We do not blame nature when she sends a thunder storm and makes us wet: why then do we term the man who inflicts injury immoral? Because in the latter case we assume a voluntary, ruling, free will, and in the former necessity. But this distinction is a…
L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)
Il giorno dopo, come dopo un incidente
Qualunque cosa le sia successa ieri, l’ha lasciata rintronata: davvero come se avesse avuto un brutto incidente e nessuno le avesse ancora fatto un quadro attendibile delle conseguenze.
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Il dolore che rende più profondi
Si tratta di una verità spaventosa: il dolore può renderci più profondi, può conferire un maggiore splendore ai nostri colori e una risonanza più ricca alle nostre parole. Questo avviene se non ci distrugge, se non annienta l’ottimismo e lo spirito, la capacità di avere visioni…
Siamo ciò che abbiamo pensato
Tutto ciò che siamo è il risultato di ciò che abbiamo pensato. Se un uomo parla o agisce con un cattivo pensiero, il dolore lo segue. Se un uomo parla o agisce con un pensiero puro, la felicità lo segue come un'ombra che non lo abbandona mai. (Buddha)
Nessuna gemma si lucida senza attrito
La gemma non può essere lucidata senza attrito, né l'uomo essere perfezionato, senza prove. (Proverbio danese)
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
To be a behaviorist you have to feign anesthesia
The real difficulty with behaviorism, though, is that its sheer implausibility became more and more embarrassing. We do have thoughts and feelings and pains and tickles and itches, but it does not seem reasonable to suppose that these are identical with our behavior or even…
Pain and our definitional practices
there is an asymmetry between colors on the one hand and pains and consciousness on the other, because we would lose the point of having the concepts of consciousness if we carved off the first-person ontology and redefined the words in third-person terms. In that sense the…
Neurology must study subjective feelings
the whole science of neurology requires that we try to seek an epistemically objective scientific account of pains, anxieties, and other afflictions that patients suffer from in order that we can treat these with medical techniques. Whenever I hear philosophers and…
Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources
Self-mastery as a soldier's virtue
Living in a fragmented and predatory world, the inhabitants of a Greek city-state, who could never afford to take the survival of their community completely for granted, attached great importance to the qualities required of a soldier: not only to strength and speed, in which…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
The pain of an infected eardrum
I had preoccupations of my own. The wounds on my legs were healing readily enough, and the skin on my forehead closed safely over a small, lumpy ridge of bone, but my ruptured eardrum became infected, and it was the source of a constant and almost unbearable pain. Every…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
No one can hurt you without your consent
As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, “No one can hurt you without your consent.” In the words of Gandhi, “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.” It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to…
Difficult experiences forge character
Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all. In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Shamanism is about healing
Neither Wasson, nor Eliade, nor Schultes—nor, for that matter, Carlos Castaneda, nor Wasson’s disciple Terence McKenna—none of these great trailblazers of shamanism have paid much attention to what is clearly its primary feature. Shamanism is about healing, about curing pain…
Drowning in collective pain
How come, I asked, you are so disgusted with yourself when you can’t even remember who you are? True, I had long forgotten who I was; let alone why I was so despicable. In a flash I understood that this was no longer my own pain. I had sunk through the bottom of personal…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
No cure for the deaths of those we love
Highly tempting as it is, the obvious problem with this position is that it fails to provide a cure for the aspect of death that is hardest to endure: not our own death, but the deaths of those we love.
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The Buddha rejected ātman as a fiction
According to Stephen Batchelor, ‘What the Buddha did was to reject that whole model altogether and declare that such an ātman effectively was a fiction, an illusion. So when he says anattā, he is rejecting the idea that there is an ātman, that there is a brahman, and focusing…
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
L'infatuazione per un regista tormentato
Si chiede se quella che ha avuto per lui non sia stata in realtà un’infatuazione banale, la giovane scenografa che si innamora del regista talentuoso e tormentato, abbastanza vecchio da essere suo padre, un vampiro che si nutre dell’ammirazione e della dipendenza sprovveduta…
Zack De La Rocha - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Vegetarianism
De la Rocha became a vegetarian as a teenager,[8] stating in 1989: "I think vegetarianism is really great, and I stand really strongly behind it...I think that an animal goes through a lot of pain in the whole cycle of death in the slaughterhouse; just living to be killed...I…