Nervous System Quotes

We only have our nervous system to paint.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension of the skin…Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.