Sam Harris, Naval Ravikant, Alan Watts

Three Point Thursday | 3 Timeless Maxims

The problem is not thoughts themselves but the state of thinking without being fully aware that we are thinking.

—Sam Harris

The advantage of meditation is recognizing just how out of control your mind is. It is like a monkey flinging feces, running around the room, making trouble, shouting, and breaking things. It’s completely uncontrollable. It’s an out-of-control mad person.

You have to see this mad creature in operation before you feel a certain distaste toward it and start separating yourself from it. In that separation is liberation. You realize, “Oh, I don’t want to be that person. Why am I so out of control?” Awareness alone calms you down.

—Naval Ravikant

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

—Alan Watts