Free to Be As It Is

Let everything be free to be just as it is.
Do not separate yourself from the world
and try to order it around.

Alan Watts

At War with Reality?

You can't empty your mind of thoughts.
You might as well try to empty the ocean of it water.
But, why would you even want to empty your mind,
unless you're at war with reality?

Byron Katie

Like a Drop of Water

The meaning of life is to take the interconnected oneness
and adventure out kind of like a drop of water adventures
away from the ocean for a little bit and then at some point
come home but have a really adventurous time and have
every moment be a suspenseful, fascinating surprise that
when you go back into the ocean you've got so much that
you could never have experience as the ocean.

Chris Niebauer

Stimulate and Be Stimulated

To me, the meaning of life is
to stimulate and be stimulated.

Jill Bolte Taylor

The Hero's Adventure

The Hero's Adventure is not about
the ego taking a ride and developing.
It's more about the totality of all
of the different brain modules,
getting them all to realize their part,
the role they're playing in the totality
of our human existence.

Chris Niebauer

We Are Maturing

I think we are maturing. We have these
beautiful Eastern philosophies and
the philosophers have used beautiful words
to describe a part of who we are and to them,
that is the real part. To me, that is
the consciousness of the right brain.

Jill Bolte Taylor

The Ones Which Open for Us

When one door closes, another one opens,
but we so often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door, that we do not see
the ones which open for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Never Again

The day you teach the child the name of the bird,
the child will never see that bird again.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Definition of Mindfulness

One of the more popular ones is purposely
being present in this moment without judgment. 
So, there's a couple of interesting elements there.
There's a little bit of effort because you're purposely
paying attention to whatever you're doing
at this moment and you're doing it
in a very non-judgmental way.

Chris Niebauer

So Much More Power

I just believe we have so much more power
over what's going on inside of our heads
than we have thus far been taught.

Jill Bolte Taylor

So Much to be Feared

Nothing is so much
to be feared
as fear.

Henry David Thoreau

The Only Thing We Have to Fear

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that
the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert
retreat into advance.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A Great Many Catastrophes

I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life.
Most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

Only Three Things Going On

At any moment in time, there's really only
three things going on inside of the head.
We're thinking thoughts, we're feeling emotions,
and we're running physiological responses
to what we're thinking and what we're feeling.
It's all cellular circuitry.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Sense Out of Nonsense

The universe has a tendency
to create order out of disorder
and to make sense out of nonsense.

Jill Bolte Taylor

The Power in the Human Brain

The power in the human brain is inhibition, not excitation.
Excitation brings you up to a level of threshold,
but inhibition keeps you right below.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Characters in Relation

If there's four of us inside of each one of us,
then there's eight of us inside of every relationship.

Jill Bolte Taylor

We're Wired for It

Every moment is a perfect and beautiful moment
when we allow ourselves to reduce all that
other chatter going on inside of our head.
And we can all attain it all the time because
we're wired for it.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Anything to Do with Anything

Everything that has anything
to do with anything is
our relationship between
the amygdala and the hippocampus.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Inside of Our Heads

Mindfulness if our ability to observe
the neurocircuitry we are running
inside of our heads.

Jill Bolte Taylor

We Are Neurocircuitry

We are neurocircuitry,
and every ability we have
is because we have cells 
that perform that function.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Feeling Creatures Who Think

At the neuroanatomical level,
at the level of brain anatomy,
we are feeling creatures who think,
not thinking creatures who feel.

Jill Bolte Taylor

Be the Buddha

Don't quote the Buddha,

be the Buddha.

Eckhart Tolle

One Original Thought

One original thought is worth

a thousand mindless quotings.

Diogenes

Your True Nature

Time is carving you, Grasshopper.
Let yourself be shaped according

to your true nature.

Master Po ("Kung-Fu")

That's All

My religion is to stay present,
that's all.

Byron Katie

A New Stage

Aging is not lost youth but
a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

Picking Up Speed

Just remember, once you're over the hill
you begin to pick up speed.

Charles Schulz

We Understand

In youth, we learn.
In age, we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A Good Chance

Never miss
a good chance
to shut up.

Will Rogers