What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- It is a mistake to imagine the mind contains a tiny thinker who thinks thoughts.
- In plain terms
- Do not believe your mind has a little man inside it.
- What can you take from it?
- The mind is not a home for a homunculus.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who is thinking your thoughts?
- Why do we imagine a thinker inside us?
Another view
Some people feel they have a self observing their thoughts.
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