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Alicia Gerald

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Alicia ’s Notes & Highlights

Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas

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The world isn’t always what’s right in front of you, you know? It’s below, it’s above, it’s out there somewhere.

Alicia ’s Quotes

“Many a friendship or marriage has failed because, instead of relating to, and caring for, one another, one person uses another as a shield against isolation. A”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner

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“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

tags: brainy-quotes, consciousness, human-mind, neuropsychology, neuroscience, perception, perception-and-reality, perception-of-reality, subjective-experience, subjective-reality, subjective-truth, truth

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“Lack of insight into each other’s private qualia of God, results in a never-ending argument between two people with vastly different conceptions of the term God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

tags: god, neuroscience, neurotheology, perception-of-reality, qualia, religious-beliefs, religious-diversity, science-and-religion, subjective-experience, subjective-reality, subjective-truth

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“Then she smiled with every last shred of courage, of desperation, of hope for the glimmer of that glorious future. “Let’s go rattle the stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

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“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart