We start out in life perfect, a seed of…

We start out in life perfect, a seed of possibility. Then our minds develop all kinds of ways to move us from this calm, empty center that we began with.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

In the book

You resolve one thing and do another; you "know" something is false and believe it anyway. We seem to start out almost perfect, a clean seed of possibility, and then the mind busily develops a thousand ingenious ways to mislead itself. And here is the part that should make you sit up: most of what we proudly call thinking is not thinking at all — it is mostly self-criticism wearing the costume of thought. […] It is the rarest strength there is. You came into the world, I believe, a clean seed of possibility, before your mind learned all its clever ways of misleading itself. You cannot return to that — but you can spend a life clearing away the false maps, one at a time, until you are flying by something closer to the truth. — The Mind in the Cockpit

Also belongs to

• Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
• Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)

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