Have you ever wondered why deer, squirrels, birds, and other wild animals in nature seem so tense? Many wild animals are skittish and high-strung because that is their nature. They require this natural tension for the protection and preservation of their species. When it comes to human beings, we have wrongly come to rely upon an unnatural tension as a requirement for our own psychological pre...

When untouched by the mind we can receive the whole of an impression and thereby be changed by it. Most of the time what we do is involve the mind in the impression by naming and describing it, and because of this we do not receive the whole impression, and therefore we are not changed.