I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.
New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.
When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and. . . often five to ten times more effectiveness.
We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.
If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.
Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it
Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
The grand instructor, time.