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"Our minds have a great capacity for deception. This does not mean we are necessarily dishonest but if we are not careful, when our brains do not have answers, our minds will create them."
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"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."

"One lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity."

"The mind is a neural computer."

"But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme."

"Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them."

"You cannot solve a level four problem with level one thinking."

"The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs."
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"Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand."

"The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain for isn't this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people."

"A spiritual hell I lived in hating the God of love and knowing the god I served, hated me!"

"Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind."

"We violated each other's boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of 'just kidding."

"Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these traits to some degree, but some of us allow them to dictate our relationships with others and ourselves."

"This woman's size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face."
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