The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

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

only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.