We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an … - Robert E. Ornstein

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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.

Robert E. Ornstein

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

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The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

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New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

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When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and. . . often five to ten times more effectiveness.

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If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

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This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.

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Stella Adler

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

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Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.

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A writer's work is the product of laziness.

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