Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Studies 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.

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.