The Self Delusion Quotes

“Pro-environmental behaviours...follow from an attitude from greater connectedness with nature... When our sense of self-identify is integrated with the natural world then harming that world becomes in effect equivalent to self-harm.”
― Tom Oliver, The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of How We Are Connected and Why That Matters

“Free will may be an illusion...Neuroscientist Bruce Hood explains:
Choices...must be the culmination of...genetic inheritance, life experiences, current circumstances do planned goals... we are not aware of these influences because they are unconscious so we feel that the decision has been arrived independently”
― Tom Oliver, The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of How We Are Connected and Why That Matters

“five-a-day’... Connect with people...Take notice/be mindful...be active...learn something new... give and show kindness”
― Tom Oliver, The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of How We Are Connected and Why That Matters

“William Blake once enthused: ‘If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to a man as infinite!’... Rushkoff responded: ‘We would be lost in that endless limitless expanse!”
― Tom Oliver, The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of How We Are Connected and Why That Matters