Author of quotes: Andrey Joyce Brothers Here
If you can truly realize that your personality is a far-fetched illusion, and values are just conventions that are accepted in society and recognized as much as possible, to discipline citizens, then you will be freed from delusions and lies, and being free, you will see everything differently something that probably seems so “terrible” to you right now.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 12:00
The way you know yourself is only a consequence of very specific external circumstances. If they change significantly, you may no longer be able to recognize yourself.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 12:00
The problem is not that the world is bad or that for some reason you are catastrophically unlucky. The problem is that you think what you think is correct. We all think so, it's a universal misconception.
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MegaMozg 05-12-2023 / 12:00
Throughout our lives we create a certain image of ourselves in our minds. But this fantasy is worth absolutely nothing. The real you is determined by the circumstances in which you find yourself. And don't have any illusions.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:59
Everything that our brain is not evolutionarily designed to understand will inevitably seem paradoxical to us, and the paradoxical is almost impossible to comprehend.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:59
This is the logic of our consciousness - it resists thoughtful thinking, complex and comprehensive research, and truly deep penetration into the topic.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:59
You do not control your behavior, you do not control your thoughts, but you are this behavior, you are these thoughts.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:59
And our consciousness in the literal sense of the word does not know ourselves.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:59
So, consciousness is what we are aware of: how we understand life, what we think about ourselves and other people. But our brain is ourselves. Every action in our brain, every nervous process, every reaction of our brain is us.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:59
We trust our consciousness too much, and it is with its help that our brain skillfully covers up any of its stupidity with beautiful formulations and “wise” explanations. In essence, consciousness sanctions what, according to the mind, it should be fought against.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:58
None of your decisions were ever really yours. Never and not one!
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:58
Our personality, our consciousness and, in general, everything that we think about ourselves is just a fake outfit, this is an English queen who reigns, but does not rule.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:58
Now, no matter how reasonable we may seem to ourselves, our brain searches for and notes only those facts that prove it is right, and on the contrary, it strictly ignores everything that contradicts its attitudes.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:58
Our attitude towards life is not what we think, but what connections our brain has created.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:58
The corresponding decision was made and continues to be made by our brain. Moreover, this is a funnel: first the brain makes a decision, and then it adapts to its consequences.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 11:58