Micro Project Book - Thought: Noise of Consciousness

Often we overreact, thinking too much deeply about things that are less than mere dust.
In doing so, we ourselves get stressed out and move further away from happiness. Humans
are thinking animals, and thoughts have made humans great. Yet in the end, thoughts are
just the noises emitting from our consciousness: even when all things are silently asleep,
we are under stress with the noise of thoughts overshadowed.

As the greatest harm of thought creates a vicious circle of self-reflective thoughts (like when
we are in a mirror room), we have to get out of our thoughts altogether rather than trying
hard to break them down one by one. Thought: Noise of Consciousness by Jonggab Kim
(of the Institute of Body and Culture) will be our stretching move to loosen our facial e-x-p-r-e-s-s-i-o-ns
and muscles hardened by the act of just thinking too much. Through this book, we will
eventually find a way to truly be happy by pouring out a chain of thoughts that make ourselves
unhappy.



Introduction                                                                                                           8

Thoughts! thoughts! more thoughts! / Will I be happier when I get to think more?

Chapter 1                                                                                                            21

Poisoning thoughts / Vengeance be my strength?! 

Chapter 2                                                                                                            34

Thinking takes blood and sweat    / Unhappiness is a condition of happiness

Chapter 3                                                                                                            47

King reigns in thoughts, beggars dwells in reality / The dilemma within democracy /
A dream that should not be awakened / An anecdote, and an unending reenactment /
Between the king and the small citizen

Chapter 4                                                                                                            67

Genealogy of thoughts: labor and disease of thought / We think about 'thoughts' /
Nietzsche's 'Thought' / Why do we ever think?

Chapter 5                                                                                                            89

Thinking like a small citizen / Sooyoung Kim: small civic amotion / Life to face life /
Slave of a circumstance, slave of thoughts

Chapter 6                                                                                                            108

Perceiving, not thinking  / On the tendency to replace perception with thoughts /
Clothes of thoughts; weight of thoughts

Chapter 7                                                                                                            123

Freeing from 'thought addiction' / Thought as a handmaid of the body /
Material memory / Our thoughts think about us

Conclusion                                                                                                           141

Those who love life, be simple!

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