Raven

“The thinking mind interprets, judges, commentates and tries to explain things, but the words, judgements and beliefs it uses are more or less arbitrary. At best, they bear a passing resemblance to reality. At worst, they are completely untrue. This means that you should never implicitly trust what your thinking mind is telling you. Because, if your thinking mind doesn’t know what’s true, it will always simply make something up. Think about this for a moment. For your whole life, it feels as though you have been experiencing reality, the ‘truth’, the world as it is, but this isn’t actually the case. In fact, you have not been experiencing direct reality, but an interpretation of reality, a story created by your thinking mind.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time