Acquaintance Quote by David Eagleman

Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

— Marianne Williamson

“Spontaneous self-organization is not restricted to living systems;”

— Oliver Sacks

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

— Ernest Holmes

A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

— Jacob Needleman

“It is not in Our [the Self's] control to acquire or to renounce. They are both [activities] of the non-Self and are subject to…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Living systems are open systems; closed systems are non-living systems. Point: If we don’t communicate with outside world—to gain information for knowledge and understanding…

— Sebastian Marshall

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

— Ray Kurzweil

Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

— John Green

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

— Joyce Johnson

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

— David Mamet