“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
“Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“Information is our environment, our niche, and as we are complex animals we constantly transform that niche, sometimes in ways that make it possible to acquire even more information from our surroundings.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”