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“What are we running out of? We’ve only been gone a day. Fuel? Food?” “Worse. Cigarettes,”
“Our perception of reality is malleable. Everything is always shifting. We may not have the power to change an event, but we do have the power to change our perspective.”
― Buddha Breaking Up: A Guide to Healing from Heartache & Liberating Your Awesomeness
― Buddha Breaking Up: A Guide to Healing from Heartache & Liberating Your Awesomeness
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.”
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.”
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The Study of the Mind: A Psychological Book Club
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