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Thought

If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, and if our best intentions lead to paradoxical outcomes, it is because we have become mesmerised by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking, the product of a brain system which evolved not to help us understand, but merely to manipulate the world: that of the left hemisphere. We have become blind to what the subtler, more intelligent and more perceptive right hemisphere sees.

Consequently we no longer seem to have the faintest idea who we are, what the world is, or how we relate to it. Indeed there is a sense in which we no longer live in a world at all, but exist in a simulacrum of our own making.

–Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

Quote

Cicero on gratitude: 

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

Moment of Gratitude

I’m grateful for challenges that push me to be better and work harder.

What are you grateful for today? 

Happy Monday,

Val