Brain Quote by Thomas Metzinger

“First, we developed the self-model, because we had to integrate our sensory perceptions with our bodily behavior. Then this self-model became conscious, and the…

— Thomas Metzinger

“Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego.”

— Tom Robbins

“Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure…

— Tom Robbins

“Long before reaching this kind of stability in meditation, however, one can discover that the sense of self—the sense that there is a thinker…

— Sam Harris

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

— Timothy Freke

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this…

— Terry Eagleton

people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.

— Lauren Oliver

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

— Jaron Lanier

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

— Alan Watts

“Now when our ego is turned up high, working in tandem with our conscious awareness knob, the ego becomes a beneficial tool because it…

— Anita Moorjani

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the 'I'-thought rises

— Ramana Maharshi

“When the outer ego is narrow, and poorly represents these subdominant personalities then they rise up in arms, and when conditions are favorable attempt…

— Jane Roberts