To meditate, you could say, is to maintain unawareness of what you are aware of. Meanwhile, everyday life calls for making plans in an uncertain world, for which you have to maintain awareness of what you are unaware of. If you contain multitudes, you should be able to do both at once. That's the real reason you have two brain hemispheres.
the Daily Whale
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