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When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.…
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The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.…
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More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -…
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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those…
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A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
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How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
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Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that…
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The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -…
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The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the…
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We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically…
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What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling…
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We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
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Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures…
— Constantin Brancusi
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere…
— Louise Bogan
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Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with…
— Stephen King
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The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace,…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Watching Ray Harryhausen's films growing up was a pure joy. He brought legends to life and he became a legend himself. And…
— Joe Letteri
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
— Jack Kroll
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that…
— Gautama Buddha
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At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.
— M. J. Ryan
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The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are,…
— Deepak Chopra
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One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember…
— Helen Keller
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A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in…
— John Lasseter
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