Feb 8 2013: I like how he put it. "Science is imagination in a straight jacket," because it so truly is. It starts in schools, we are taught to memorize facts and not to think independently. Look at any great inventor, he is usually up against colleagues and others who say it cannot be done or that it's silly. Progress is what carries the motivation to get something done, and everyone defines it differently. Modern science has limited our 'way' of thinking and it's only until we try to define life's possibilities ourselves that we ever really achieve anything. Science tries too hard to control the how and imagination allows truth to work itself out naturally.
Feb 8 2013: Make sure you can focus on your other parts before trying to focus thought, or the lack there of. Stare at a single thing in your immediate area. After doing so for a comfortable amount of time, close your eyes. Start listening, take note of everything you hear and try and envision your surroundings through only what you hear. Then notice your smell, what is in there air, and can you better understand your surroundings by the smell. Focus on what you feel. Where you are seated, focus on the 'feeling' of your backside on a chair or your feet on the ground. recognize there being no boundry when you do and everything flows together. Then bring your breathing in slowly. Inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds, release for 4 seconds, and wait for 4 seconds. What are you thinking about?
Feb 4 2013: I try to stay out of routines and notice it's easier to see personable answers to life's questions when I do. I also pay acute attention to my own thoughts compared what takes place around me. Especially when I notice something out of the ordinary.
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