Wednesday, April 09, 2025
QUOTE - WHAT ARE THESE BOOKS?
"What are those books?
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| My copy of The Art Of Thinking, purchased 1963. |
The something evocative for you may be poetry, history, philosophy, the sciences, or moral sciences, i.e. the progress of mankind. Some people who go to sleep over a volume will be interested by a review which they think more condensed or better within their reach. Read reviews if they help you to think, that is to say, if they leave in your mind images that will go on living when you have forgotten where they came from; read a Shakespeare calendar at the rate of four lines a day... read algebra, read the lives of great inventors or of great businessmen, read 'that' kind of books which you and nobody else know to be thought-productive for you."
The Art of Thinking (1928)
Abbe Ernest Dimnet
Labels: Art of Thinking, books, donovan baldwin, ernest dimnet
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Dreams Fascinate Us
By: Donovan Baldwin
Dreams.
They fascinate us.
Some see them as "omens" of the future, often harbingers of doom.
Some see them as clarifications of the past.
Some researchers tell us that they are simply the subconscious hard at work trying to make sense out of all the facts and fancies we have been exposed to.
Shakespeare even projected them into death,
"To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause."
Myself, I'm not personally sure what dreams are, but, I tend to go with the researchers. I believe the subconscious, a precocious little beast, may take clues, including ones we are not even consciously aware of, and weave a tapestry of potential events...which may or may not be accurate for many reasons.
However, like the conscious mind, the subconscious can only work with the material it has.
In his book, "The Art of Thinking
", Abbé Ernest Dimnet, postulates that filling our minds with fine thoughts and images can make us better thinkers, and persons.
I like that. I try to do that. I fail sometimes, but, I try.
I believe good images, sounds, and words affect my waking and dreaming thoughts and actions.
Just a thought.
Musing in the morning...before coffee.
They fascinate us.
Some see them as "omens" of the future, often harbingers of doom.
Some see them as clarifications of the past.
Some researchers tell us that they are simply the subconscious hard at work trying to make sense out of all the facts and fancies we have been exposed to.
Shakespeare even projected them into death,
"To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause."
Myself, I'm not personally sure what dreams are, but, I tend to go with the researchers. I believe the subconscious, a precocious little beast, may take clues, including ones we are not even consciously aware of, and weave a tapestry of potential events...which may or may not be accurate for many reasons.
However, like the conscious mind, the subconscious can only work with the material it has.
In his book, "The Art of Thinking
", Abbé Ernest Dimnet, postulates that filling our minds with fine thoughts and images can make us better thinkers, and persons. I like that. I try to do that. I fail sometimes, but, I try.
I believe good images, sounds, and words affect my waking and dreaming thoughts and actions.
Just a thought.
Musing in the morning...before coffee.
Labels: donovan baldwin, dreaming, dreams, ernest dimnet, the art of thinking
