A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.

We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.

Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends.Discerning the two is a life's work.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.

No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.