Arleta Urgent Quotes & Sayings

my enemy's enemy is my friend. — Seth Grahame-Smith

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps ...
In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.
The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange. — Antonio R. Damasio

And he realized that everyone was dreaming, but without awareness, without knowing what they really are. — Miguel Ruiz

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules, — Lee Clow

A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing. — Edwin Percy Whipple

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad. — Sri Chinmoy

Did you know ... that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I've been told, is to cheerfully return the smile ... — Ron Atchison

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures. — Alice Hoffman