Brain Quote by Swami Vivekananda

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion,…

— Anonymous

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future…

— Samuel Alexander

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived…

— Henri Bergson

“Conscious” and “unconscious” are only too obviously derivatives of “above ground” and “below ground.” In modern theories of the Will we meet with all…

— Oswald Spengler

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

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control…

— William James

“On the other hand, we can all call to mind the case of seeing the same thing many times over and over. Everyone has…

— Tagawa Shun'ei

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this…

— Ramana Maharshi

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other…

— Matthew Simpson

The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.

— Adrienne Rich

That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it…

— Shantideva

From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe…

— T. S. Eliot