Quotes by Neuroscientists - Page 7

Start working my friend – start working towards humanizing the world. Because the world needs humans – conscientious humans, not some dumb manikins, driven by prejudice and discrimination.
Abhijit Naskar
Become a human and call upon the humans in others. And in time the world shall become a real abode of peace.
Abhijit Naskar
A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization.
Abhijit Naskar
I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.
Abhijit Naskar
Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
All answers that you seek can only be found within.
Abhijit Naskar
Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.
Abhijit Naskar
Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.
Abhijit Naskar
Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.
Abhijit Naskar
The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.
Abhijit Naskar
Religion without reason is like making love without love.
Abhijit Naskar
Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!
Abhijit Naskar
Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth.
Abhijit Naskar
Truth does not need publicity, lies do.
Abhijit Naskar
Salvation of human life requires disclosure of truth through reason, surpassing bigotry.
Abhijit Naskar
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
Abhijit Naskar
Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the very moment of their unraveling?...Sometimes, all the miles between are as nothing, sometimes, they are narrowed to the little silence between the beats of a heart.
Colleen McCullough
And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
Colleen McCullough
Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.
Colleen McCullough
Our primitive ancestors learnt various behavioral characteristics like jealousy, possessiveness and aggression to ensure the survival of their wild love life in the harsh environment of Mother Nature. And all those behavioral responses eventually got engraved in our genetic blueprint. So, these are not the enemies in the path of a healthy relationship, rather when utilized properly they can even kindle the spark in a dying relationship.
Abhijit Naskar
The brain becomes illogical, in the throes of new romance.
Abhijit Naskar
All women desire one simple quality in their partner, which is understanding.
Abhijit Naskar
First law of pleasurable love-making in the long run, is that you don't keep naked pictures of your partner on your phone.
Abhijit Naskar
Rich or poor, living in a trusting society simply makes people happier.
Paul J. Zak
The opportunity to deceive others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross. Few of us are murderers or thieves, but we have all been liars. And many of us will be unable to get safely into our beds tonight without having told several lies over the course of the day.What does this say about us and about the life we are making with one another?
Sam Harris
If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist on a diet of raw vegetables, you would find a new golf instructor. However, when gurus make demands of this kind, many of their students simply do as directed.
Sam Harris
That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I am lost in thought, however, I'm as confused as anyone else.
Sam Harris
If there is a God you must see it (literally), even clearer than you see this page, otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist, than a hypocrite.
Abhijit Naskar
It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified.
Abhijit Naskar
Meditation is the brain's way to exercise.
Abhijit Naskar
In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.
Abhijit Naskar
Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.
Abhijit Naskar
Thus, on a functional level, your meditation triggers the corresponding neurobiological networks that are responsible for eliciting health effects.
Abhijit Naskar
Upon entering into the divine domain of transcendence, all these religious founders truly felt that they had accessed the true meaning of the universe, while in reality, what they had access to, in that state of mind, was their inner self.
Abhijit Naskar
The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God.
Abhijit Naskar
Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself. Such an experience of divine ecstasy neurologically transformed him into a great teacher for humanity filled with love, kindness and divinity.
Abhijit Naskar
Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but this is only one type of Yoga, called “Hatha-Yoga”. In reality, Yoga is an umbrella term for various physical and mental exercises that lead to the overall well-being of a person.By origin, Yoga has mainly five forms:1.tRaja Yoga - The realization of divinity through intense meditation2.tKarma Yoga – The realization of divine bliss through your own daily activities and duties3.tHatha Yoga – The realization of divine well-being through various physical exercises4.tJyana Yoga – The realization of inexplicable bliss in the pursuit of knowledge5.tBhakti Yoga – The realization of ecstasy through love and devotion for your Personal GodThe purpose of all Yogas is to set your consciousness lose into the vast domain of the unknown, where your brain circuits simulate various fascinating mental states that are usually unimaginable and unattainable in your everyday consciousness. But the whole yoga thing has nothing to do with God or something of that sort. It is all about various states of the human mind.
Abhijit Naskar
Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.
Abhijit Naskar
Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.
Abhijit Naskar
Meditation is the vitamin for your mind.
Abhijit Naskar
Do not force your mind to get rid of random thoughts, because your brain is simply not capable of doing so. Instead, when you sit to practise meditation, let the thoughts come and go, just don’t serve them tea. Over time, that background noise inside your head would disappear.
Abhijit Naskar
Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and be well.
Abhijit Naskar
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
Jaak Panksepp
We can't tell you the origin of the experience. But we can tell you the brain does appear to be built to have these [mystical] experiences. There are examples of people reaching similar states, spontaneously. But for the most part, it takes work. Meditation and these powerful prayer experiences require dedication and practice. But people have figured out how to do this, and the question is, 'What is the source of that experience?' The answer is, 'We don't know.' Science doesn't really have an answer for you.
Andrew B. Newberg
A prayer/meditation a day, keeps the Doctor away.
Abhijit Naskar
Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.
Abhijit Naskar
Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.
Abhijit Naskar
Masturbating is no more sinful than praying or meditating.
Abhijit Naskar
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
Robert M. Sapolsky
On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.
Robert M. Sapolsky
If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.
Robert M. Sapolsky
I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.
Abhijit Naskar
If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.
Abhijit Naskar
The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.
Andrew B. Newberg
Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.
Sam Harris
Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person’s development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person’s religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger.
Abhijit Naskar
Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience.
Abhijit Naskar
​Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.
Abhijit Naskar