Posts Tagged ‘Mind’

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Mea Culpa

by Seraphine Khorana on April 15th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Mea Culpa

What did you wish for? I can’t tell you, because then it won’t come true.
Wishes are the opposite of worries.
I hate asking myself “What’s the worse that can happen?” because I already know.
If I think about them, they might come true. And I’d have nobody to blame but myself.
Mea culpa.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Quotation from Arthur Somers Roche

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Quotation from Lily Tomlin

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Know Thyself

by Seraphine Khorana on March 20th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Know Thyself

Everyone thinks they know themselves. After all, we live in the back alleys of our minds smelling the same soup every day. But how self-aware are we really? Are we like my Uncle Clem who seems mindless that his house smells like dog urine? Do we get so used to ourselves that we can’t smell what is obvious to everyone else?

While Washington poured billions into propping up the banks and financial institutions that brought our economy to its knees, the Chinese spent their stimulus billions on an epic 19,000 miles of new railroad track. Nearly half of that total will go towards completing a web of more than 42 inter-province hyperspeed rail lines that will link almost every major city in the country. The fastest of the new trains travel at 229 miles per hour. So China comes out of the economic crisis with a rail system that will be the envy of the world.
Quotation from Graydon Carter, Wild on the Street, Vanity Fair

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Need Help? Try the Imagination.

by Seraphine Khorana on July 14th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Need Help? Try the Imagination.

The mind is more powerful than the body.
It finds places your fingers could never reach.

Where Your Greatest Sex is the Imagination (Washington Square News)

“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
Quotation from C.S. Lewis

“I have a huge, active imagination. I think I’m really scared of being alone
because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman.”
Quotation from Claire Danes

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Overflow Error: Scaling the Application

by Seraphine Khorana on May 20th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Overflow Error: Scaling the Application

What do you trust more: Your mind or your heart?
Everyone says to “follow your heart” as if it’s more
reliable than the mind. But doesn’t the heart play
tricks on us, just like the mind does? What’s reliable?

What is an Overflow Error? (webopedia.com)

“A kind heart he hath.
A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.”
Quotation from William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

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An Overfertilized Mind

by Seraphine Khorana on May 19th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
An Overfertilized Mind

I have an overactive mind. It has priorities,
though they aren’t necessarily my priorities.
For instance, my mind worries when I should sleep.
I should be grateful. My mind is who I am.
I’d rather lose a leg than lose my mind.

About Alzheimers Disease (www.alz.org)
About Bipolar Disorder (National Institutes of Health)
About Carousels (International Museum of Carousel Art)

“In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights,
the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the
buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight,
those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has
a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting
vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray
that your griefs may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.”
Quotation from Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Haunted Mind

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Mind Expansion

by Seraphine Khorana on May 15th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Mind Expansion

Some people have quick minds. Others
exercise their minds to stay sharp.
A few run away with their imagination
and are never heard from again.

Mensa Workout (Mensa International)
Neuroeconomic Mind Games (The New Yorker)

“The Brain is wider than the sky
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will contain
With ease- and you- beside”
Poem by Emily Dickinson, The Brain is Wider than the Sky

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery,
always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud.”
Quotation from Virginia Woolf

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