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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…
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Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great…
— Karen Armstrong
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because…
— J. G. Ballard
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On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as…
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly,…
— Seamus Heaney
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Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement…
— Maria Montessori
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The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
— Norman O. Brown
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,…
— Etty Hillesum
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External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.
— Jaron Lanier
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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
— Oliver Sacks
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That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the…
— Aldous Huxley
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The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external…
— Yasmin
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