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“This compulsion to connect experiences, symbols, images, and ideas stems directly from the brain's vital function as an organ evolved to make sense of…

— David DiSalvo

“Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.”

— Mark Frost

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

— Brian Tracy

The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines.

— Richard Linklater

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes…

— Michael Merzenich

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life,…

— Michael Shermer

Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“the brain registers what is really out there in the world, makes a decision about what should be out there, and then generates its…

— Bruce M. Hood

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into…

— Eckhart Tolle

It is as if the formation of patterns within the unconscious mind is accompanied by physical patterns in the outer world. In particular, as…

— F. David Peat