Sunday, September 6, 2009

风景依旧人已不同

Familiarity breeds contempt. 熟悉的地方不但没有风景,有时还会引起反向的情绪。凡所难求皆绝好,一旦到手又平常,人是喜欢新奇的动物,获取和竞争是人的天性,也是生存的手段,所以人们日常生活中的重点多放于此。咎于注意力的有限性,如果没有经过特殊的学习和经历,没有有意识地强化训练自己,随便一个人是没有时间也不会特别去想已有之物的价值。Stoics有一个让人们学会珍惜的办法:幻想自己突然失去了身边非常熟悉的一样东西,亲人也好,财物也好,环境也好,然后分析自己对其之反应。这个办法也许会帮助我们重新评估什么对我们来说重要或不重要。

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Reading List

  • Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Philosophy
  • Alec Wilkinson: The Happiest Man in the World
  • Bhagavad Gita As It Is
  • Daniel C Dennett: Breaking the Spell
  • Daniel C Dennett: Consciousness Explained
  • Daniel C Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
  • Daniel C Dennett: Freedom Evolves
  • David Weeks: Eccentrics
  • Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature
  • Friedrich Schiller: Essays (The German Library)
  • G. I. Gurdijieff: Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"
  • Hil Washburn, ed: The Many Faces of Wisdom
  • John Kekes: The Art of Life
  • John Strohmeier: Divine Harmony (Pythagoras)
  • Matthew Stewart: The Truth about Everything
  • Michel Foucault: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
  • Michel Foucault: The Hermeneutics of the Subject
  • Michel Waldberg: Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas
  • Osho: The Book of Understanding
  • Osho: The Book of Wisdom
  • P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous
  • P. D. Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
  • Paul C. Vitz: Faith of the Fatherless
  • Pierre Hadot: What Is Ancient Philosophy (tr: Michael Chase)
  • Robert Wright: Nonzero: the Logic of Human Destiny
  • Robert Wright: The Evolution of God
  • Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
  • Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
  • Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
  • The Upanishads
  • Xenophon: A History of My Time

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