"Absurd- that is the light mind that..." - Quote by Albert Camus
Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
More by Albert Camus
“My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.”
“I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.”
“The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art”
More on Absurdity
“You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses because they will want to keep playing.”
“Before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol. It's true. Well, they don't want you to get an infection, and you can see their point. They don't want some guy go to hell and be sick.”
“Life is like a box of terrible analogies.”
More on Mind
“Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
“Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.”
“Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!”