There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.

We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.