Having already read Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day, it is interesting to now watch and listen to him too, as his linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia mean that his perception of words, numbers and colours weave together into a new way of understanding the world.
Gnarls Barkley sang compellingly of craziness trumping sanity. Their official video for Crazy, meanwhile, was created in the style of the Rorschach inkblot test: animated, mirrored inkblots morphing into one another, while taking on ambiguous shapes.
I am naturally over-obedient and hopelessly suggestible. Also, like everybody else these days, I can?t stop myself imputing interiority to every machine I encounter - Bryan Appleyard, http://www.bryanappleyard.com/2011/03/sat-nav/
While the traditional model of psychiatry and psychoanalysis is strictly personalistic and biographical, modern consciousness research has added new levels, realms and dimensions and shows the human psyche as being essentially commensurate with the whole universe and all of existence - Stanislov Grof
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself - Mark Twain
we take consciousness as an emergent property not just of the individual brain, but also its evolutionary history and social interaction then it is necessarily more than the sum of its physical components - Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2008/06/understand_how_does_no…
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success - Henry David Thoreau
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony - William Henry Channing, 1810-1884, American Writer
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
The single most important agenda that true ecologists everywhere ought to be engaged in, namely: the growth and evolution and development of interior consciousness itself. Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement - Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything