Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.
Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.
Has it ever struck you. . . that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory. . . except for each passing moment.
Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.
Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.
The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment. . . ? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.
When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.