The Instructions

Adam Levin

My 4 highlights

  • If I can pay attention to my attention, then I must be something other than my attention.
  • You don’t actually think that so much as You watch it get thought,
  • That is what humans do—edit and interpret. That is 50 percent of what makes them human. It is an outcome of having a human soul.
  • “Mind is to the study of human psychology what the ether once was to that of pre-Einsteinian physics—a convenient and groundless homuncular hypothesis that obscures exactly that which its proponents insist it describes; an illusion to be dispelled.”