It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis, study of the unconscious mind highlights the importance of passions and perception.
There must be some supreme creative energy, he thought, that can take love and turn it into synapses and then take a population of synapses and turn it into love. The hand of God must be there.
If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord’s name in vain but are outraged if they see a pregnant woman smoking, then you are living in a world that values the worldly more than the divine.
The main job of radicals in the Noam Chomsky or G. Gordon Liddy mode is to go around from one scruffy lecture hall to another reminding audiences while they may be disdained or ignored by the mainstream culture, they are actually right about everything.
First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes.
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
The message of the summoned life is that you don’t need to panic if you don’t yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.
It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?
The technology’s going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.
Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.
One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.