“The proper place to start, in order to understand the various things called religion, is in the human capacity to entertain supernatural fantasy. This vast domain of cognition includes daydreaming, fiction, myth, dreams, all produced by what classical psychology would have called the faculty of imagination.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“We have different sets of intuitive principles for man-made objects and natural beings, because we are toolmakers and must understand the connection between the shape of objects and their functions. We have social expectations because we need social support. As we shall see, we have moral intuitions because we depend on fair exchange to prosper. In each case, having these cognitive dispositions made our ancestors more successful than others at reproduction, which is precisely why they turned out to be our ancestors.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“My plane of mind created tricks that only metal brains can read and laugh.”
Source: BEFORE INC.WE935.I57.N211
“Experiments show that even three-year-olds have the intuition that rewards should be proportional to contributions, in places as different as Japanese cities and the camps of Turkana nomads in Kenya. Obviously, it does happen that people take more than their share-but that is universally considered exploitative, and people are eager to avoid or shun individuals who do that.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“Much of our thinking is unnecessary.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“One must take care with those who have the wit
Not only to observe the action, but see
The thought as well!”
Source: La divina commedia
“Your mind is a very powerful force. If you learn to tame it, you can achieve anything.”
“It’s time to assume your glorified body, your celestial body, your radiant body, your spiritual body (soma pneumatikon) – the vehicle for your out-of-body experiences. When you attain your “diamond body,” you become one of “the immortals”. You are now one of the cloudwalkers. Pure mind is superconductive. It can never run down or degrade or experience any friction. Your eternal mind is a Golden Mind. It’s a Star Mind, it’s the Glory of the Whole Universe.”
Source: Ultrahuman
“Men’s minds are sometimes cheerful, sometimes sad; moods don’t always stay the same! To make an issue of it amounts to harassment.”
Source: Gora
“The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters