Date: 1999
"Perhaps the consciousness of dreaming is the almost random formation of little groups forming in different configurations like pebbles thrown very gently into the water. One can imagine the gentle ripples easily being displaced by the next pebble as it hits the water."
preview | full record— Greenfield, Susan (b. 1950)
Date: 2003
"The mind is a hotel with a thousand rooms."
preview | full record— Dinh, Linh (b. 1963)
Date: 2004
"Nature provides a first draft, which experience revises."
preview | full record— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
Date: 2006
"In power mindfulness, the mind is like a megawatt searchlight, enabling you to see so much deeper into what you are gazing at."
preview | full record— Ajahn Brahm [born Peter Betts] (August 7, 1951)
Date: 2006
"When there is no longer any wobble, then the mind is like an unwavering rock, more immovable than a mountain and harder than a diamond."
preview | full record— Ajahn Brahm [born Peter Betts] (August 7, 1951)
Date: 2008
"In a sense, the mind works like a flashlight: When you point a flashlight at an object in a dark room, that object emerges from the darkness, as if coming into existence."
preview | full record— Somov, Pavel G.
Date: February 15, 2011
"If you want to use a memory palace for permanent storage, you have to take periodic time-consuming mental strolls through it to keep your images from fading."
preview | full record— Foer, Joshua
Date: February 15, 2011
"In other words, natural memory is the hardware you’re born with. Artificial memory is the software you run on it."
preview | full record— Foer, Joshua
Date: March 24, 2011
"It is like finding that cheese depends on chalk--that soul depends on matter."
preview | full record— McGinn, Colin (b. 1950)
Date: March 24, 2011
"It [neurology] has all the fascination of a horror story--the Jekyll of the mind bound for life to the Hyde of the brain."
preview | full record— McGinn, Colin (b. 1950)