3 Quotes by Edward Slingerland

Thinking that you are good can make you bad. Talking about positive behavior can encourage negative behavior. Laozi is clearly on to something when he warns us that consciously trying to be righteous will, in fact, turn us into insufferable hypocrites and that anyone striving to attain virtue is destined to fail.

Let alone, without the help of or hot cognition, cold cognition is simply paralyzed by choice.

The conscious mind, ungrounded by the wisdom of the body, is remarkably incapable of taking care of business.