#rain

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#invaluable #patients #psychedelic #reported #sessions

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#concepts #consciousness #current #matter #nature

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #brain #dna #genes #material

And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#before #benefit #bring #constrain #eat

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#brain #cannot #cave #clever #comprehend

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#eyes #four #fourth #machines #measure

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#agents #deal #fame #i #lawyers

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#between #book #children #difference #even

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#been #category #command #completely #different

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#expand #influence #international #leadership #means