459 Quotes About Neuroscience

The question is not, do you have conflicts? The real question is, are you aware of your conflicts?

A mind that has no conflict, is not alive.

Anybody who says they don't have any conflict, is either lying or deluding themselves.

There's certainly no unchanging self that is carried through from one moment to the next. Its a processes; it's not a thing. You're a verb more than you're a noun (from the point of view of neuroscience).

Own your biases, don't be owned by them.

We can demolish all the chaos, loneliness, discrimination and wars of the world, once we simply get hold of our desires - and we can do so, not by force, but only by being aware of their harms.

Synaptic downscaling during the meditation leads to a reduced energy demand of the brain. Meditation can provide synaptic re-normalization. Meditation represents a reduced oxygen consumption of the brain and therefore lower energy metabolism requirements.

Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society

Consumption is not bad, but when done at excessive proportions it turns out to be not just bad, but downright deadly for the self as well as the society, as the society itself is a collective functional expression of many selves.