http://wordie.org/words/mind Comments for the word 'Mind' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments I'ev raed aubot taht, sikp. Cperey. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:26:14 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments Sikpiva, tath's llveoy. :) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:33:27 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments I imagine most of you have seen this, but it's still fascinating:<br /><br />"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."<br /><br />My tpniyg otefn lkoos tihs way, but I sspcuet taht smtnihoeg esle is at wrok in my csae. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:20:06 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments 'the mind is its own beautiful prisoner.' -e.e. cummings Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:11:21 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:00:26 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments Once upon a fine time, when all of the little animals were busy in other parables, a man decided to sit down and "write a letter to his own brain." Well, he did so and sent it off, but within a few days it was returned unopened, with a message on the envelope that said, "You should address me as your 'MIND,' NOT your 'brain.'" And he decided not to even waste his time ever trying to correspond with his large intestines and related areas. --<a href="http://www.jancox.com">Jan Cox</a> <br /><br /> Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:16:32 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments The moon orbits the Earth; the Earth orbits the sun; the sun orbits the galactic hub…what does the mind orbit? The mind is a double star orbiting a Singularity: a black hole. Thoughts are its <a href="/words/event horizon">event horizon</a>; spoken words, its comet tail; the line of the penned word, a drifting contrail. The Double Star: I and Not-I. The Black Hole?: Who, What, Where, When, Why….but especially WHO AM I ???<br /><br />The mind whispers to itself. It tells itself what it knows. It tells itself Religion, it tells itself Science; it tells itself Mathematics and Philosophy. It narrates unto its own ears, and thereby sustains its path above the Black Hole; ever-accelerating—out and away. But how does the speeding bullet strike itself, when it’s the only goal? How the gurgling infant decree and design its selfsame birth? For here is the mystery of the bottomless Black Hole: WHO AM I ???<br /><br />In Einstein’s Curved Cosmos, the omnipatetic pursuer discovers only the ebon space behind its eyes—the fleeting, receding shadow of its own headlong rush: the presence of absence. Yet that movement is the conjuration of the panoply and play of all phenomena and perception. So the mind whispers, constantly, what it thinks it knows, and can know only what it thinks—and is thereby helplessly ensnared in a web of its own spinning. The kitten chases its tail, and has amusement enough for a time. But the mystery remains, for those unavoidably fascinated: WHO AM I ???<br /> Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:27:54 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments A contronym in the sense of: obey vs. wayward i.e., 'mind of her own'. Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:40:05 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments <i>The mind is its own place, and in it self<br />Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.</i><br />Milton, Paradise Lost, I Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:35:13 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/mind#comments