Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
Oliver SacksStudies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.
Oliver SacksWe speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
Oliver SacksThe same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement.
Oliver Sacks