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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you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.…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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If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.
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All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then…
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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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Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward -…
— Malcolm X
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
— Adyashanti
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship…
— Rachel Cusk
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You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for…
— Terry Goodkind
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The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
— Swami Vivekananda
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And I told myself I was in a trap from which I wanted to escape! To escape where, do you, Man know…
— Sorin Cerin
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""Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon…
— Ayn Rand
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You ignore me, I don't care but when I'll do the same, you'll start doubting your own existence.
— Aaraf
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