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“According to this new evidence, most of our thinking (including our moral judgment) is not a pristinely rational process in the traditional sense, and therefore reasoning is not a bloodless, emotionless, purely formal logical process. Instead, we need an intact and functioning emotional apparatus in order for our reason to have any possibility of operating appropriately in a given situation.”
― Mark Johnson, Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

“We all begin to die from the moment we are born. Some do it faster than others. All we can do is enjoy our lives.”
― Sidney Rosen, My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson

“Developing a consciousness culture has nothing to do with establishing a religion or a particular political agenda. On the contrary, a true consciousness culture will always be subversive, by encouraging individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.”
― Thomas Metzinger

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness.”
― Benjamin Lee Whorf