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“Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.”
― The 50th Law
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LP- CHAMPAGNE, ROSE, PORT SPECTRUM
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“We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is.”
― The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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“You don’t think everyone actually lives, do you? Most people just exist and roam around. It’s a choice, to actually live.”
― Falling
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From ~~~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, T.49
Some men asked the Master questions
which ultimately resolved themselves into one,
that ‘I’ is not perceptible
however much they might struggle.
The Master’s reply was in the usual strain:
“Who is it that says that ‘I’ is not perceptible?
Is there an ‘I’ ignorant, and an ‘I’ elusive?
Are there two ‘I’s in the same person?
Ask yourself these questions.
It is the mind which says that ‘I’ is not perceptible.
Where is that mind from?
Know the mind. You will find it a myth.
King Janaka said,
‘I have discovered the thief who had been ruining me so long.
I will now deal with him summarily. Then I shall be happy.’
Similarly it will be with others.”
D.:
How to know the ‘I’?
M.:
The ‘I-I’ is always there. There is no knowing it. It is not a new
knowledge acquired. What is new and not here and now will be
evanescent only. The ‘I’ is always there. There is obstruction to its
knowledge and it is called ignorance. Remove the ignorance and
knowledge shines forth. In fact this ignorance or even knowledge
is not for Atman. They are only overgrowths to be cleared off.
That is why Atman is said to be beyond knowledge and ignorance.
It remains as it naturally is - that is all.
D.:
There is no perceptible progress in spite of our attempts.
M.:
Progress can be spoken of in things to be obtained afresh.
Whereas here it is the removal of ignorance
and not acquisition of knowledge.
What kind of progress can be expected in the quest for the Self?
D.:
How to remove the ignorance?
M.:
While lying in bed in Tiruvannamalai you dream in your sleep that you find yourself in another town. The scene is real to you. Your body remains here on your bed in a room. Can a town enter your room, or could you have left this place and gone elsewhere, leaving the body here? Both are impossible. Therefore your being here and seeing another town are both unreal.
They appear real to the mind.
The ‘I’ of the dream soon vanishes, then another ‘I’ speaks of the
dream. This ‘I’ was not in the dream. Both the ‘I’s are unreal. There
is the substratum of the mind which continues all along, giving rise
to so many scenes. An ‘I’ rises forth with every thought and with
its disappearance that ‘I’ disappears too. Many ‘I’s are born and die
every moment. The subsisting mind is the real trouble. That is the
thief according to Janaka. Find him out and you will be happy.
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| Saying nothing sometimes says the most." |
| - Emily Dickinson a People who cheat at work are more likely to cheat on their partner as well. Professional misconduct is linked to doubling the rate of marital infidelity, new research finds. a The personality trait of optimism is linked to a very longer life, research finds. People who are optimistic are more likely to live an exceptionally long life. Being optimistic — a trait that can be boosted — can increase the odds of reaching 85-years-old by up to 70 percent. a |
List of personality traits[edit]
| Openness to experience | Composed of two related but separable traits, Openness to Experience and Intellect. Behavioral aspects include having wide interests, and being imaginative and insightful, correlated with activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Considered primarily a cognitive trait.[26] |
| Conscientiousness | Scrupulous, meticulous, principled behavior guided or conforming to one's own conscience. Associated with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.[27][28][29] |
| Extraversion | Gregarious, outgoing, sociable, projecting one's personality outward. The opposite of extraversion is introversion. Extraversion has shown to share certain genetic markers with substance abuse. Extraversion is associated with various regions of the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala.[30][31][32] |
| Agreeableness | Refers to a compliant, trusting, empathic, sympathetic, friendly and cooperative nature.[33][34][35] |
| Neuroticism | Identifies people who are prone to psychological distress. Individuals who are high in neuroticism tend to be anxious, depressed, self-conscious, impulsive, vulnerable and display angry hostility. "Neuroticism is the major factor of personality pathology" (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1969). Neuroticism has been linked to serotonin transporter (5-HTT) binding sites in the thalamus: as well as activity in the insular cortex.[36][37][38] Neuroticism also predicts the occurrence of more negative life experiences.[23] |
| Honesty-humility | Tendency towards sincerity, modesty, fairness, and greed avoidance. Those who score high on this trait feel little desire to manipulate others or to break the rules for personal gain. |
| Self-esteem (low) | A "favorable or unfavorable attitude toward the self" (Rosenberg, 1965). An individual's sense of his or her value or worth, or the extent to which a person values, approves of, appreciates, prizes, or likes him or herself" (Blascovich & Tomaka, 1991).[39][40][41] |
| Harm avoidance | A tendency towards shyness, being fearful and uncertain, tendency to worry. Neonatal complications such as preterm birth have been shown to affect harm avoidance. People affected by eating disorders exhibit high levels of harm avoidance.[42] The volume of the left amygdala in girls was correlated to levels of HA, in separate studies HA was correlated with reduced grey matter volume in the orbitofrontal, occipital and parietal regions.[43][44][45][46] |
| Novelty seeking | Impulsive, exploratory, fickle, excitable, quick-tempered, and extravagant. Associated with addictive behavior. |
| Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) | The defining trait of highly sensitive persons, characterized by the increased depth of processing of sensory input that underlies HSPs' greater proclivity to overstimulation, emotional reactivity and empathy, and sensitivity to stimuli.[47][48] |
| Perfectionism | "I don't think needing to be perfect is in any way adaptive." (Paul Hewitt, PhD) Socially prescribed perfectionism – "believing that others will value you only if you are perfect." Self-oriented perfectionism – "an internally motivated desire to be perfect." Perfectionism is one of the traits associated with obsessional behavior and like obsessionality is also believed to be regulated by the basal ganglia.[49][50][51] |
| Alexithymia | The inability to express emotions. "To have no words for one's inner experience" (Rený J. Muller PhD). In studies done with stroke patients, alexithymia was found to be more prevalent in those who developed lesions in the right hemisphere following a cerebral infarction. There is a positive association with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), childhood abuse and neglect and alexithymia. Utilizing psychometric testing and fMRI, studies showed positive response in the insula, posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), and thalamus.[52][53][54] |
| Rigidity | Inflexibility, difficulty making transitions, adherence to set patterns. Mental rigidity arises out of a deficit of the executive functions. Originally termed frontal lobe syndrome it is also referred to as dysexecutive syndrome and usually occurs as a result of damage to the frontal lobe. This may be due to physical damage, disease (such as Huntington's disease) or a hypoxic or anoxic insult.[55][56][57][58] |
| Impulsivity | Risk taking, lack of planning, and making up one's mind quickly (Eysenck and Eysenck). A component of disinhibition. Abnormal patterns of impulsivity have been linked to lesions in the right inferior frontal gyrus and in studies done by Antonio Damasio author of Descartes Error, damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex has been shown to cause a defect in real-life decision making in individuals with otherwise normal intellect. Those who sustain this type of damage are oblivious to the future consequences of their actions and live in the here and now.[59][60][61][62][63][64] |
| Disinhibition | Behavioral disinhibition is an inability or unwillingness to constrain impulses, it is a key component of executive functioning. Researchers have emphasized poor behavioral inhibition as the central impairment of ADHD. It may be symptomatic of orbitofrontal lobe syndrome, a subtype of frontal lobe syndrome which may be an acquired disorder as a result of traumatic brain injury, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), anoxic encephalopathy, degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, bacterial or viral infections such as Lyme disease and neurosyphilis. Disinhibition has been consistently associated with substance abuse disorders, obesity, higher BMI, excessive eating, an increased rate of eating, and perceived hunger.[65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72] |
| Psychoticism | Psychoticism is a personality pattern typified by aggressiveness and interpersonal hostility, one of four traits in Hans Eysenck's model of personality. High levels of this trait were believed by Eysenck to be linked to increased vulnerability to psychosis such as schizophrenia. He also believed that blood relatives of psychotics would show high levels of this trait, suggesting a genetic basis to the trait.[73][74] |
| Obsessionality | Persistent, often unwelcome, and frequently disturbing ideas, thoughts, images or emotions, rumination, often inducing an anxious state. Obsessionality may result as a dysfunction of the basal ganglia.[75][76][77] |
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