{"id":347,"date":"2025-01-12T09:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T09:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/idle-talk-and-idle-thought\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T09:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T09:39:36","slug":"idle-talk-and-idle-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/idle-talk-and-idle-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle Talk and Idle Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If you aim to avoid idle talk, then you ought also aim to avoid idle thought. A maxim to mind:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Avoid the near occasion of useless conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This applies both to conversation with others and with oneself. The latter is avoided by internal situational awareness which is classically enjoined by:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Guard the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Not easy. It is easy to avoid others, but not easy to avoid one&#39;s garrulous self.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you aim to avoid idle talk, then you ought also aim to avoid idle thought. A maxim to mind: Avoid the near occasion of useless conversation. This applies both to conversation with others and with oneself. The latter is avoided by internal situational awareness which is classically enjoined by: Guard the mind. Not easy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/idle-talk-and-idle-thought\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Idle Talk and Idle Thought&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,72,106,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introversion","category-sage-advice","category-spiritual-exercises","category-spiritual-hygiene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}