In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.
The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Travelling expands the mind rarely.
When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.
I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.
We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
