Impure Joys and Mental Clutter

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Is there too much junk taking up space in your mind? Here's how to let go of what you don't need and embrace the simple pleasures in life.

, but that rarely, if ever, comes to us later in life. It may seem that the reason we feel"heavier" with time is the relative triviality of a young person's troubles compared to those of an adult. There is something to that, certainly, but it is not the only factor and possibly not the main one. For a child does not perceive his or her own worries as unserious. Rather, there are just fewer of them.

This does not seem easy to do, but I suspect the difficulty stems chiefly from our own ambivalence. Much as we keep all sorts of objects we don't need, despite the fact they create clutter, just because we somehow find ourselves unable to dispose of them, so also weto get rid of the hodgepodge of rags of the past we store in our minds.

There is the question of how exactly we might go about de-cluttering our minds. That's a topic for a longer discussion, but I will note that the first step is to want to do it. To dispose of the key obstacle: ambivalence.

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