"Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes."

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Source : Interview with J. Flinn Akroyd, www.mungbeing.com.

Susan Blackmore

#Consciousness Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Memes Quotes

“If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.”

Source : "We All Have Oil on Our Hands" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.
“When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.”

Source : Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.226, Crown Business
“I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.”
“Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme”
“In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity”
“Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.”
“I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.”

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