In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
Interpretation
Idling allows our minds to wander and can lead to unexpected insights.
Mortimer Adler's quote suggests that when we are idle, our minds are free to explore thoughts and ideas that we might not consciously consider. This 'subterranean consciousness' can bring forth creative and valuable insights that emerge from the depths of our minds during moments of relaxation and reflection.
In practice
During a speech about creativity, one might use this quote to illustrate the benefits of downtime.
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.
I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection
Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact _x000D_ come to know anything.
Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.
All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.
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