The art of being wise is knowing what to ignore. (William James). One should pay attention not to what catches the eye, but to what is deeply hidden, to the true cause of the quarrel, which manifests itself in every private conversation.
American Philosopher William James; 1842-1910) and psychologist, one of the founders and leading exponents of pragmatism and functionalism.
Quotes and aphorisms
1. The greatest benefit that can be derived from life is to spend life on a cause that will outlive us.
2. The art of being wise consists in the ability to know what not to pay attention to.
3. Many people think that they are thinking, when in fact they are just putting old prejudices in a new order.
4. Every day or every other day, force yourself to do something that you do not like to do, so that the hour of cruel necessity, when it comes, does not take you by surprise.
5. Genius is just an unusual way of looking at things.
6. Man is the most terrible predator in the world, because only man tends to hunt his own kind.
7. In any project, the most important factor is the belief in success. Without faith, success is impossible.
8. When it is necessary to make a choice, but you do not make it, this is also a choice.
9. God can forgive us our sins, but nervous system- never.
10. Don't be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living. And your confidence will make these words true.
11. Self-esteem equals success divided by claims.
The choice of any product is always associated with useful and useless advice. This is especially true when choosing car battery. Sometimes motorists have to spend a lot of time at the computer in order not to end up buying a pig in a poke. A person in such a situation absorbs absolutely all the information, which does not always allow him to choosebatteries for cars Right. You should be aware of a few tips that will definitely not be useful when buying this unit.
Date of manufacture and weight of the battery
First, you need to remember that for quality work It is not at all necessary to buy a car just a manufactured battery. After all, auto parts are not bread that can go bad in a short time. The shelf life of most batteries is two years, and if the battery is recharged, it will not lose its performance characteristics for another five years.
Secondly, when buying a car battery, the mass of the battery definitely does not matter. Many advise checking the weight, so that it will be possible to identify structural defects in the device or underfilling of the electrolyte. But the weight of the battery from model to model will still be different, since each manufacturer uses its own case manufacturing technologies in the production process. The mass of the battery is characterized not only by the amount of electrolyte, but also by the presence of stiffeners, protective covers on the terminals, handles for transportation and other factors. And even in the passport to the battery, the exact weight will not be indicated.
Electrolyte density
Thirdly, you definitely should not pay attention to the density of the electrolyte. Yes, thanks to this parameter you can determine the battery level. But almost all models of modern batteries are maintenance-free, so it will definitely be impossible to check this parameter. Even in the case of a serviced battery, the seller simply will not allow you to unscrew the plugs before purchasing the product. And anyway, this parameter will not tell anything new to the motorist.
It is also worth remembering that the warranty on the battery also does not matter. The buyer can use it only in the case when he proves a factory defect in the device. These and some other tips will be useless when choosing a car battery.
Learn to talk to your cat [Part IV]
LANGUAGE OF SOUNDS
"How does the cat talk?" we ask the kids. "Meow," they reply. "What does the dog say?" - "Bow-wow". Well, “woof” is probably a good way to convey the main signal that a dog resorts to, demanding our attention. But one sound combination "meow" is clearly too poor and unable to describe the huge variety of sounds available in the lexicon of cats.
Research aimed at studying the intricacies of the cat's vocabulary has begun relatively recently. Different experts classify sounds differently, and we will consider them in the context of our relationship with pets.
To understand the various sounds and intonations that a cat uses in communication, you will have to work seriously and carefully. Usually we instinctively understand what a cat is “talking” to us, and we do not so much judge it by sounds as we guess by its appearance and circumstances, what she wants: waiting to be stroked, “hinting” that it is dinner time, or just having a friendly conversation. A smart cat makes it easier for us to understand: she will come to an empty bowl, to the door, or start scratching at the window, wanting to be let out for a walk. If you seriously want to distinguish the sounds that your cat makes, record the cat's voice and your interpretations on a tape recorder: how do you understand the meaning of different signals. Listening to the recording later, when the voice is not supported by body language and movements, you will find that it is already much more difficult for you to understand even the most familiar cat "expressions", calls or requests.
Each cat has its own unique repertoire of sounds and gestures. It should also be noted that cats are much better at understanding our language than we are at understanding their signals. They adapt what they say to the way we understand it. Sometimes it seems that cats accustom us to the perception of certain sounds. If we respond correctly to some special meow, they will notice it and resort to it again and again. So the repertoire of signals useful in communicating with people expands as we assimilate the material. Often cats have "words" for us that they don't use when talking to other cats or even other people in our family.
Some Christians are of the opinion that one should not pay attention to thoughts and examine them.
Among Christians there are those who believe that there is no need to "protect the soul from thoughts." To this the holy ascetics answer:
Varsanofy Optina(Sat. “The soulful teachings of the venerable Optina elders”, ch. Thoughts): “Protecting your soul from thoughts is a difficult matter, the meaning of which is even incomprehensible to worldly people. It is often said: why protect the soul from thoughts? Well, a thought came and went, why fight it? They are very wrong. Thought doesn't just come and go. A different thought can destroy a person’s soul, a different thought makes a person completely turn to life path and go in a completely different direction than he used to go."
Ephraim Sirin(Rebuke to oneself and confession): “But, perhaps, you will say that thoughts should not be included in the study ... But I can also give you proof of this from Divine Scripture. Job offered sacrifices for his children, saying, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts” (Job 1:5). And if thoughts were not subject to responsibility, then why would one bring him a single calf for the fall of thoughts? ... And when we hear: “And the hairs on your head are all numbered” (Mt. 10:30), then the hairs on the head are thoughts, and glory is the mind, in which the power of thinking is contained. God recognized the consent to adultery as adultery, and the lust of a wife - the very deed, and sin - murder, and values hatred on an equal footing with homicide, for He says that "everyone who is angry with his brother in vain is subject to judgment" (Matt. 5:22); and “... whoever hates his brother is a murderer” (1 John 3:15). Blessed Paul also testifies to our responsibility for our thoughts, saying that the Lord will reveal “hidden things in darkness and reveal the intentions of the heart” (1 Corinthians 4:5). And he says again: “their thoughts, now accusing, now justifying one another” (Rom. 2:15). So, do not tell me that thoughts do not mean anything, because the consent to them is recognized as the deed itself.
We will also cite some teachings of the holy fathers who say that every Christian should do his own thing. inner world, or heart, through sobriety over one's thoughts, scolding with passionate thoughts and prayer, and performing some external deeds that correspond to Christian virtues and bodily exploits. But doing your own inner man and thoughts - more importantly, if a Christian wants to be cleansed of sin in himself.
Macarius Optinsky(Collected letters, vol. 6, p. 168): “It’s not just the matter<спасения>what to go to church and sit at the hoop, but you need to look after your heart and exterminate passions: pride, pride, vanity, anger, rage, malice, gluttony, lust of the flesh, and so on; This is precisely what our spiritual warfare consists of - to resist the passions, to destroy them with the help of God.
Nicodemus the Holy Mountaineer (Invisible abuse , book 1, ch. 1): “God requires from Christians the fullness of perfection, requires that we be perfect in all virtues. But if you, my beloved reader in Christ, wish to reach such a height, you must know in advance what Christian perfection consists in. For, not knowing this, you can deviate from the real path and, thinking that you are flowing towards perfection, head in a completely different direction. I will say frankly: the most perfect and great thing that a person can desire and achieve is drawing closer to God and being in union with Him. But there are not a few who say that the perfection of the Christian life consists in fasting, vigils, kneeling, sleeping on bare ground, and in other similar bodily austerities. Others say that it consists in doing many prayers at home and standing up for long church services. And there are those who believe that our perfection consists entirely in mental prayer, in solitude, hermitage and silence. The largest part limits this perfection to the exact fulfillment of all the ascetic deeds prescribed by the charter, not deviating either to excess or to a lack of anything, but holding on to the golden mean. However, all these virtues alone do not constitute the desired Christian perfection, but are only means and ways to achieve it. That they are the means and the effective means to the attainment of perfection in the Christian life, of this there is no doubt. For we see very many virtuous men who go through these virtues as they should, with the aim of obtaining through this strength and power against their sinfulness and badness, in order to draw from them the courage to resist the temptations and seductions of our three main enemies: the flesh, the world and the devil ... But, on the other hand, these same virtues can do more harm to those who place the whole foundation of their life and their hope in them than their obvious omissions, not in themselves, because they are pious and holy, but through the fault of those who do not use them as they should, namely, when, paying attention only to these outwardly performed virtues, they leave the heart of their mother-in-law in their own decrees and in the wills of the devil, who, seeing that they have strayed from the right path, does not interfere with them not only with joy to strive in these bodily exploits, but also to expand and multiply them according to their vain thought. Experiencing at the same time some spiritual movements and consolations, these workers begin to think of themselves that they have already risen to the status of angelic ranks and feel the presence of God Himself in themselves ... "
So, external deeds and prayer are obligatory for a Christian, but if he “leaves his mother-in-law’s heart” as his sinful soul and the devil pleases, which means he will not follow what he thinks about and will not fight with passionate thoughts , then he will be in varying degrees in delusion about himself. And this means that he will have a wrong opinion about himself and not see the passions that control him from the inside (and outwardly he can do nothing bad and sinful), and will not follow the path of Christ, because:
Macarius the Egyptian(Spiritual conversations, b.53): "... who wants to become a true Christian must acquire labor and struggle not of the flesh, but (to wrestle) in the mind with thoughts."
Theophan the Recluse(Sat. "Inner Life, ch. 6): "Whoever has not experienced illnesses of internal warfare, who has not suffered for Christ in any way, hopes in vain to be married in the Kingdom of Christ."
Flower garden of the monk Dorotheus(ch. 26): “The one who works with the body and performs some virtues, but does not care about the arrangement of the heart, does not care about keeping the mind and inner doing (about sobriety and abuse - from composition) does not care, does not care about protecting the senses, - looks like someone who collects something with one hand and scatters it with the other.
All the holy fathers say that whoever does not follow thoughts and does not fight with them is “in great danger” and “enslavement”, and also lives in constant deceit, because outwardly he looks pious, but inwardly he creates lawlessness.
Theophan the Recluse(Collection of words "Inner Life", 18): "When a person is devoted to passions, he does not see them in himself and does not separate from them, because he lives in them and by them."
Nicodemus the Holy Mountaineer(Invisible Warfare, v. 1, ch. 1): “Why is it obvious that they are in great danger. Having their inner eye, that is, their mind, darkened, they look at themselves with it, and look wrong. Thinking about their external deeds of piety, that they are good with them, they think that they have already reached perfection, and, being proud of this, they begin to condemn others. After this, there is no longer any possibility that any of the people would convert such people, except for the special influence of God. It is more convenient to turn to good for an obvious sinner than a secret one, hiding under the cover of visible virtues.
Sophrony (Sakharov)(Elder Silouan of Athos, sec. The beginning of spiritual life is the struggle with passions): “ normal person, in his present state, all his life to be in the struggle; but there are two extreme states which can be characterized by its absence. The dispassionate person has no struggle in the sense that the pleasure offered by passion does not in the least attract him, and everything ends with a “bare” thought. And one who, although subject to the attacks of thoughts, is not accessible to their enticing force, can be called impassive. A sign of complete enslavement is also the absence of a struggle, but already because at all stages of the development of a passionate thought, a person not only does not resist, but also goes towards him, lives by them.
Basil the Great(Conversations, b.3): “Sometimes a gloomy person, magnifying himself with honesty, outwardly wearing the guise of chastity and often even sitting among those who please him for virtue, in an invisible movement of the heart is carried away by thought to the place of sin. He sees in the representation the object of his desires, imagines some indecent conversation, and in the innermost temple of the heart, having vividly and completely outlined a clear pleasure in himself, he commits an inwardly sin that has no witnesses and remains unknown to everyone until the One Who comes reveals "the secret darkness and announces the counsels of the heart" (1 Corinthians 4:5). Therefore, beware, "Let no word of iniquity be hidden in your heart."
And one more thing: those who do not follow thoughts and constantly either dream or have mental conversations with someone, they do arbitrary evil, and those who follow and oppose them, they do involuntary evil.
Barsanophius the Great(Guide to Spiritual Life, v. 617): “Who voluntarily has sin and evil in him, and who involuntarily? Answer. Those who voluntarily have evil in themselves are those who give up their freedom to evil, delight in it, and make friends with it. Such have peace with Satan and do not wage war with him in their thoughts. Involuntarily, those who have evil in themselves are those who, according to the word of the apostle (see Rom. 7, 23), feel an opposite force that is antagonistic in their members, and there is a certain dark power and a veil over them, but only in thoughts with which they do not agree, do not delight in them, do not obey them, but contradict, oppose, speak against, resist, become angry with themselves. These latter before God are much better and more honest than those who arbitrarily betray freedom to evil and delight in it.
So, here are the main spiritual reasons why people do not see their thoughts or see them poorly. And in conclusion, to those who wish to know themselves: if you do not yet have the skill of sobriety and true knowledge of yourself, then begin to observe how often you mentally say something to someone imaginary (and the subsequent material that will be presented in the following chapters I hope this helps).
Sayings, quotes and aphorisms about attention and mindfulness
« Attention to detail makes a huge difference successful implementation business ideas." Richard Branson
« The art of being wise is knowing what to ignore." James W.
« Any comparison of objects with each other presupposes attention; all attention presupposes understanding features of the development of attention and effort, and every effort is a motive that compels one to make it. A person without desires - if such a person could exist - would not compare objects with each other and would not express any judgments.." Helvetius K.
« Nothing new may be said from the pulpit, but everything that is said deserves attention; at least for the sake of understanding: where did you get!" Borisov V.
« Little things generously thank attentive people for their attention.." Chomutius
« Knowing what to ignore is just as important as knowing what to focus on..» Warren Edward Buffett
« Every moment can change the outcome of the duel, loss of attention can bring defeat or death!» Akbar D.
« The obvious often escapes the attention of many people.." Diver D.
« You should be careful. Not suspicious, but only attentive.» Denisenko O.
« Nothing in the universe is random. Your past actions boomerang law they come back not to punish you, but to get your attention. They are like guiding keys to unraveling a mystery." Chopra D.
« Our attention is our most valuable resource. What we pay attention to multiplies in our lives." Pavel Durov
« Inattention is a crime for creation.»
« Too concentrated attention must be diluted with action." Tatarkin Yu.
« People are used to not paying attention to what surrounds them. “The closer you are to an object, the more you despise it,” right?» Heyer D.
« The more ridiculous and rude a detail seems to you, the more attention it deserves. Those circumstances that at first glance only complicate the matter, most often lead you to unravel." Conan Doyle A.
« Contempt for the small - neglect for the big." Aleev R.
« The most important thing is to be attentive. Pay attention to everything around, to everything that you see, to everything that others do not notice - and you will know what others do not know..»
« The more attentively you listen to the inner voice, the better you begin to hear the voices of the outside world.." Hammarskjöld D.
« I know the mine of ostentatious attention: this is the deepest degree of absent-mindedness." Lichtenberg G.
« The one who knows how to be attentive can remember." Johnson S.
« Contradiction should arouse attention, not feelings." Fuller T.
« Train yourself not to be inattentive to what the other says, and penetrate as much as you can into the soul of the speaker..»
« Don't be content with a superficial look. Neither the originality of each thing nor its dignity should escape you.» Avreliy M.
« Learn to look for signs and follow them.." Paulo Coelho
FUNNY AND FUNNY STATEMENTS, APHORISMS AND QUOTES ABOUT ATTENTION AND CARE
« Drunkards are those people who did not notice how other people became drunkards." Chomutius
« When it flies in one ear and flies out the other, then it flies in both at once." Sukhorukov L.
« Miser pays twice. Scattered - thrice." Ivanov A.
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