"The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical."

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Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.3, Basic Books

George Lakoff

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“You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that's how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches. You find a junk car and drive it for a month, then lave it beside the road. You find someone to fall in love with you. You make it all up as you go. Or, you know, maybe it makes you up.”

Source : Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler (2007). “Dream Factory”, p.66, Penguin
“The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.”
“Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.”
“Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.”
“Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.”

Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
“There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You're no longer the young, cute thing anymore and maybe you're not quite old enough to play (what others think of) in terms of women in charge.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When you ask about "mission" it is easy to reference a "mission statement" which, in my case, is the quest, however Quixotic, at times, to sensitize everyone I am in contact with to the miracle of life on Earth, and our sacred responsibilities to preserve, protect and revere biodiversity, at every possible juncture of our days and nights. We have very little time.”
“To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description ...”

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