Analysis Quote by Terence McKenna

Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

— Jerome Kerviel

“The animal part of his mind wasn’t made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of.”

— Hugh Howey

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human…

— Albert Einstein

“Kahneman later codified his research in the 2011 bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow.3 Man, he wrote, has two systems of thought: System 1, our…

— Chris Voss

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a…

— George Santayana

“Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre, not his…

— Paul Brunton

“ All of a sudden, inviting Jeremy up to my room seemed like a terrible idea. I wanted him too much. My desire for…

— Jennifer Bosworth

“The eight lessons5 are: 1. Puppy training: Playing with attention 2. Taming the animal mind: Cultivating curiosity and kindness 3. Recognizing worry: Noticing how…

— Patricia A. Jennings

“You, a human being, who possess an animal’s mind, please listen to my song. Normally”

— Kelsang Gyatso

Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you…

— Eckhart Tolle

“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish…

— Grant Morrison

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

— C. S. Lewis

I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana…

— Kate Atkinson

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is…

— Stephen Fry

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

— Brian Swimme