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Why do we fear an empty mind?

  Natasha Dern: Why Do We Fear An Empty Mind? “Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.”     Blaise Pascal Why is it so hard for us to tolerate emptiness [...]

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