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The Present Minds

Visual Quotes

A cinematic collection for the overstimulated mind.

Lines lifted from the archive and given room, atmosphere, and visual weight - made to slow the scroll and stay in memory.

89 quotes 8 pages Curated archive
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Kama, in its fullest form, does not make you reckless. It makes you focused.
From Savitri and Satyavan: 3 days that defeated Death itself Read article
Love
Wanting is the beginning. Going to get it is the whole thing.
From Savitri and Satyavan: 3 days that defeated Death itself Read article
Purusharth
Dharma without power is not half a dharma. It is its own complete and more difficult thing.
From What the Mahabharata knew about being right and being ignored Read article
Purusharth
What unites all of these strategies is this: they do not present options. They structure perception.
From The invisible side of marketing Read article
The Prism
The most effective marketing today does not ask for attention. It arranges to already have it.
From The invisible side of marketing Read article
The Prism
We are not just seeing differently. We are comparing differently.
From Why we see faces differently: the mind behind the gaze Read article
Human Frameworks
The brain would rather see a face that is not there than miss one that is.
From Why we see faces differently: the mind behind the gaze Read article
Human Frameworks
Artha is not the destination. It is the ground beneath your feet.
From What the Mahabharatha knew about wealth that nobody told you Read article
Life
Memory is not a recording. It is a construction. THC does not erase the construction. It changes who is doing the building.
From Does cannabis affect memory? it does not just blur it Read article
Habits
The brain on THC does not become less active. It becomes more willing to accept what it has invented.
From Does cannabis affect memory? it does not just blur it Read article
Habits
Evolution did not fail to give us capable babies. It gave us a different kind of capable. One that needed other people to survive.
From Why are human babies so helpless at birth? Read article
Psychology
The part of you that hears a song and feels it in your chest is not borrowing from language. It is older than language. It has always been its own thing.
Music