"In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Thomas Metzinger

#Cheating Quotes #Reality Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Work ethic is the most important component of being successful.”
“There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?”

Source : Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.60, Ballantine Books
“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”
“No one, and nothing, will ever hurt you as long as I'm alive.”
“Space does for comics what time does for film!”
“Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.”
“Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.”

Source : "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest". Book by Mark J. Plotkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 1994.
“One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.”

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