Thanks for sharing this experiment with us. I also dont quite understand why people cant stand to be with their thoughts. In 1654, scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote: All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Now, there's some science behind that statement. Let us, then, jeer no more at those who are honoured on account of rank and office; for we love a person only on account of borrowed qualities. Web"All of humanity's problems stem from (people)'s inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Learn more at perennialleader.com. We were definitely told to sit still a lot in school, but never told how. We never, then, love a person, but only qualities. Pascal Quote "What we found, to our surprise, is that people really cant do this very well at all. We Can Expand Our Concept of Beautiful: Bravo, Mattel, WOF 384: Bishop Barron and Jonathan Roumie: A Conversation, WOF 383: What Christianity Brings to the Public Conversation, WOF 382: The Beauty of Hope w/ Fr. Im never getting those moments back, no matter how much I long to be in a future moment; those present moments in the car would just be squandered due to future longing. You could say that this persistent restlessness is natures way of keeping a little fire under our buttsone that makes elsewhere and later seem like a more suitable site for happiness than here and now. My primary teacher recommends something called duration When I am mentally at my sharpest, I have noticed that I have up to 5 threads or so going in my brain: 1) Typing on the keyboard at 80WPM. All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.. Use this time, this strange and unique time, to get in touch with yourself, and with God, at a deeper level. Theres always something to do, and it involves practicing something other than succumbing to the habit of trying to already be somewhere else :). For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone., Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction., The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart., To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher., Curiosity is only vanity. Blaise Pascal, quote from Penses, When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed itmemoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis (remembrance of a guest who tarried but a day)the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then.