A Wisdom Archive on Thought

Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as, person,situation and message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object. Understanding - Examples. A person understands the weather if he/she is able to predict and to give an explanation of some of its features. A psychiatrist understands another person if he knows his anxieties and their causes and can give him useful advice on how to minimise the anxi ... Including:

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It is difficult to define understanding. If we use the term concept as above, the question then arises as to what is a concept? Is it an abstract thing? Is it a brain pattern or a rule? Whatever definition is proposed, we can still ask how it is that we understand the thing that is featured in the definition: we can never satisfactorily define a concept, still less use it to explain understanding. It is more convenient to use an operational or behavioural definition, we can say that somebody who reacts appropriately t ...

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Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτίνος)(ca. 205–270) is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads. Porphyry believed Plotinus was sixty-six years old when he died in the second year of the reign of the emperor Claudius II, and estimated the year of his teacher's birth as around 205. Plotinus disliked "being in the body", so he never discussed his ancestry, or his place or date of birth. Eunapius however reports ... Including:

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The power of mind over matter is the creative power of thought. Yad bhavam/ Tad bhavathi - you become what you think. The world is a manifestation of our inner state. The situations we come across, the people we meet, the problems we confront, the life experiences we have, are all projections of what lie within. We create our reality. We are the architects of our destiny. Perceived reality eventually becomes manifested reality. So you become what you think; you find what you perceive.

 
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Godhra is a major electoral issue as Gujarat goes to the polls. The likes of Gujarat’s politicians could not have occasioned Basile’s remark: ''Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.’’ This is not so when memory is used to imagine annihilation, reason for carnages, exhort those in majority to shun their conscience, and banish civilised thoughts of religious coexistence.

 
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Plastic Soul. Used in Occultism in reference to the linga sharira or the astral body of the lower Quaternary. It is called "plastic" and also "Protean" Soul from its power of assuming any shape or form and moulding or modelling itself into or upon any image impressed in the astral light around it, or in the minds of the medium or of those present at séances for materialization. The linga sharira must not be confused with the mayavi rupa or "thought body" - the image created by the thought and will of an adept or sorcerer ; for while the "astral form" or linga sharira is a real entity, the "thought body" is a temporary illusion created by the mind.

 
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