How compassion can help someone hearing voices - and maybe the rest of us too ...

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Creative Thinking Author Michael LeBoeuf on the difference between goals and daydreams

Goals without deadlines are daydreams

Michael LeBoeuf Creative Thinking (p.41)

Robert Solomon on the emotions and responsibility

Our emotions involve more than  evaluations, they also ascribe responsibility, praise for gains, blame for losses. 

Robert Solomon, The Passions (p.213 "The Logic of Emotions 7. Responsibility)

Epictetus on what really upsets you

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about the things.

Epictetus, Handbook 5 (trans. White)



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David Hume on how to stop overthinking

Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.

From David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature