Open mind
Writer Jeanette Winterson on the connection between art and an open mind:
“Most of us spend a lot of time censoring everything that we see and hear. Does it fit with our world picture? And if it doesn’t, how can we shut it out, how can we ignore it, how can we challenge it? We are continually threatened in life, it’s true. But once you are alone with a book, and it’s also true with a picture or with music, all those defenses drop and you can enter into a quite different space where you will learn to think differently about yourself.”
Source: Women at Work Vol II: Interviews from the Paris Review
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Silence is a better place to be sometimes !
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Thank you for writing , my day ends so well after reading your posts <3
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At first I was going to argue this, but now I’m seeing her point. I like it.
I couldn’t agree more. The mind is a finicky piece of machinery that can operate in any direction we choose. I am the master of my fate. Could be translated to I am the master of my thought process.
Words of wisdom. Reading a book, listening to music, are moments when you enter a different reality.
I’d say spending quiet time in a forest might similarly produce the desired thought process transition you mentioned.