brainy-quotes

Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves.

Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people.

Each of the sapiens brains generates its own perception of God in uniquely different ways. Ergo, it imposes different qualities of meaning and value on God. You see God the way your brain wants you to see it. There is no right and wrong, or fact and fiction on this matter. It is all personal.

Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.

__he human brain creates everything that you are.

Consciousness is simply the brain__ neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.

The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself.

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

The brain waves of ordinary people during insight experiences are unique. Their brains are in special states.

Brain waves are like personal handwriting.

All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are.

Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.

Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.

I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers.

Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate _ to empathize with others.

Quran, like most other scriptures, is a book of most wonderful truth mixed with the most disgraceful superstitions of human nature.