mind exploration Quotes

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

Inner space is the real frontier.

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

Your mind is the greatest home entertainment center ever created. It requires contemplative silence to really discover who you truly are. You have immense talents, resources and abilities that are untapped.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.