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"You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal, you tune in different frequencies."
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"You cannot solve a level four problem with level one thinking."

"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."

"A single thought can shift your entire world."

"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."
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"You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and reduce it to one word: energy. It's all energy. Scientists say that if you can't measure it, weight it, or see it, it doesn't exist. Well, no one has ever seen energy. We can see its effects, but not 'it."

"I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again."

"Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing."

"If you have experienced recurring situations in your life that are unpleasant, know that there is something you are supposed to be getting from those situations that you have not been getting and that the moment you get it, those situations will pass out of your life, not to return."

"Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually."

"We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging."

"If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed - type peptides and fewer calling out for feel - good peptides."

"Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be."

"A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer."
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