Nervous System Quotes

• There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Views, Perception

  "Power, Freedom, and Grace". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2006.

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• The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

  William James

  Education, Enemy, Allies

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

  Galen

  Keys, Looks, Nervous

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• Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life, Motivational, Real

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.31, Penguin

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• Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Differences, Preparation

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.29, Penguin

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• We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Wise, Secret, Enlightenment

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• The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

  Norbert Wiener

  Past, Decision, Machines

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.33, Da Capo Press

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• When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

  Tara Brach

  Stress, Trying, Wake Up

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.

  Russell Simmons

  Stress, Gray Matter, Brain

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Hippie, Games, People

  Quoted in East Village Other, 15 Apr. - 1 May 1966

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• God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Integrity, Forgiving, May

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• Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

  George Orwell

  Worst Enemy, Nineteen, Nervous

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.52, Arcturus Publishing

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• Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Philosophy, Views, Practice

  Katsuki Sekida (2005). “Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy”, p.211, Shambhala Publications

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• Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Meditation, Coherence, Fields

  "Deepak Chopra on Your "Super Brain," Work Stress and Creativity". Interview with Judy Martin, www.forbes.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Thinking, Skills, Feet

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• For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Philosophical, Feet

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It’s conscious.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Cells, Facts

  "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2010.

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• With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Inspirational Life, Emotional

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically - chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system.

  Jonathan Lipnicki

  Sports, School, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

  Temple Grandin

  Pressure, Calming, Nervous

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Order, Creating

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• I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.

  Wilder Penfield

  Country, Mind, Might

  Wilder Penfield (2015). “Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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