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Am I Dreaming?: The New Science of Consciousness and How Altered States Reboot the Brain

by James Kingsland

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The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End

by Harold Schechter

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30 Day Mental Challenge by Mitch Horowitz

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Up to my fiftieth year I was unhappy, ineffective, and obscure. I had read some New Thought literature and some statements of William James on directing one’s attention to what is good and useful and ignoring the rest. Such ideas seemed ...more

Mike’s Quotes

“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”
― Francisco de Goya

tags: art, artists, arts, fantasy, marvels, monsters, reason

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“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

tags: depression, humor, irony, philosophy, pity, psychology, sarcasm, self-pity

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“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
― Bill Wilson

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“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: darlings, deleting, editing, kill, revising, writing

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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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