Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

Colors are things we experience.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows he breathes but does not live.

"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.