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more as a competition phenomenon than impairment.
“Competition,” the other psychologist said, “between the left and right hemispheres of your brain. It’s not so much a single signal, defective or contaminated; it’s more like two signals that interfere with each other by carrying conflicting information.”
left hemisphere. The self-system or ego, or consciousness, is located there. It is dominant,
left hemisphere always that the speech center is located;
‘reflections’ of reality. Not reality itself.
Justice and honesty and loyalty are not properties of this world, she thought;
“You’ll be doing this kind of work, cleaning these bathrooms, until you get so you can do a good job. It doesn’t matter what a person does; it’s that he gets so he can do it right and be proud of it.”
“The best way is to do the bowls first, then the tub, then the toilets, and the floor last.”
“Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.”
“Motion that is circular is the deadest form of the universe.”
“He had no idea, and he hasn’t any idea now, because now he hasn’t any ideas. You know that as well as I do. And he will never again in his life, as long as he lives, have any ideas. Only reflexes.
he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned toward deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God.
