Ruxandra

“A great many of my thoughts fell into the ‘unhelpful and unproductive’ category. ‘If you’re worried about losing these creative thoughts,’ he gestured somewhat dismissively, ‘then where do you think they come from in the first place? Do those moments of inspiration come from cold, rational thinking, or do they arise from the stillness and the spaciousness of the mind? When the mind is always busy there’s no room for these thoughts to arise, so by training your mind you’ll actually make more space for these creative thoughts to arise. The point is, don’t be a slave to your mind. If you want to direct your mind and use it well, then good. But what use is the mind if it’s all over the place, with no sense of direction or stability?”
― Andy Puddicombe, The Headspace Guide to: Mindfulness & Meditation

“Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“greatly increases the chances of finding and inspiring the new Einstein. Wherever she might be.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“As more effort was directed towards cereal cultivation, there was less time to gather and hunt wild species. The foragers became farmers.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind