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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

The mind is just another muscle.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.