My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

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.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

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