#instinct

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight? ↗

— Megan Chance

#faith #instinct #intuition #spiritualism #faith

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive. ↗

— Toba Beta

#instinct #life #spirit #survival-of-the-fittest #life

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle--behold, the Running Man. Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everyhing else we ove--everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires' it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run. We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

#non-fiction #passion #running #art

It's all in the reflexes. ↗

— "Jack Burton" (Kurt Russell)

#prescience #reflexes #survival #survival-instinct #movies

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#instinct #learning #nature

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense. ↗

— Criss Jami

#human #human-nature #judging #judgmental #logic

In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct. Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#society #writers #writing #nature

A meeting of the hearts of two Gemini has been known to end with explosive results, Mr Holloway. ↗

— (Jem) J.A. Belfield

#instinct #jem-stonehouse #paranormal-romance #sean-holloway #werewolves

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#character #deep #genius #high #i

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#instinct #nature #still #strongest