You can’t do both

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Albert : “Have you actualized fully?”
Peggy Blumquist : “What?”
Albert : “Have you actualized fully?”
Peggy Blumquist : “I don’t know.
I mean, I’m trying.”
Albert : “Do you feel cold sometimes, even when it’s hot?”
Peggy Blumquist : “Sometimes.”
Albert : “Do you understand the difference between thinking and being?”
Peggy Blumquist : “What do you mean?”
Albert : “Do you understand the difference between thinking and being?”
Peggy Blumquist : “I…”
Albert : “To be is simply to exist…
Try it…
Try simply being.”
Peggy Blumquist : “I’m sorry, but how is sitting here gonna help me be the best person I can be?”
Albert : “Ah.
You want an explanation.”
Peggy Blumquist : “Well, kinda.”
Albert : “The human mind, aroused by an insistence for meaning, seeks and finds nothing but contradiction and nonsense.”
Peggy Blumquist : “Okay. It’s just practically, I’m saying. Uh, as a person, a married person, a woman who’s worried. She’s not living up to her full potential.”
Albert : “Hmm.
Think or be.
You can’t do both.” – Fargo – S02E08 – Loplop