Thinking about thinking

In Tews' day's mailbox...

"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself from thinking." – attributed to Aldous Huxley, who's birth in 1894 Surrey, England, is celebrated today.

Today is also the 166th anniversary of the birth of George Bernard Shaw, in Dublin, Ireland. Another celebrated thinker.

Still thinking…

"We are in an age when people think they should have opinions about everything, and they rush past the facts to get there … public falsehoods (aka fake news) are not something foisted on us; they are something we must be active collaborators with, by accepting and repeating the unchecked lie … (we could) refuse to accept and repeat unless we know, accepting that often we do not know. … "I don't know" is a really good position to take, and it's often the most honest and accurate one available.” – Rebecca Solnit

The Zen mind is also known as the “I don't know mind.”

The birds have vanished into the sky.

And now the last sky drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,

until only the mountain remains. – Li Po (8th CE)