Here it is, the hardest thing: Do what is necessary. Do not do what is not necessary.
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Here it is, the hardest thing: Do what is necessary. Do not do what is not necessary.
Whereas intelligence is featureless, detached and not easy to discern, ignorance is blazingly obvious.
What we call ‘ego’ is a mind addicted to thinking. Does it need to be said that thinking about this addiction can only feed the addiction? A higher faculty than thought is required.
No doubt the mind is a powerful tool. So is an electric drill. Tools are for occasional use. We would surely view as deeply weird someone who walked around drilling all the time.
Scott Fitzgerald: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing thoughts in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” A smiling Nelson Mandela did this. A rank and unruly partisanship shrivelled at his feet.