We May Express Them [emotions] Physically Slightly

We Are Not Passive Exhibitors Of Visual Or Auditory Or Tactile Images. We Have Selves. We Have A Me That Is Automatically Present In Our Minds Right Now.

There Are Things In Our Lives That Take Up An Enormous Importance And That Become Very Dominant Effects In Our Biography. And That Comes Out Of A Variety Of Reasons, But Fundamentally Comes Out Of How That Particular Experience Connects With Your Effective Systems Of Response.

A Self That Is Very Robust, That Has Many, Many Levels Of Organization, From Simple To Complex, And That Functions As A Sort Of Witness To What Is Going On In Our Organisms.

...i Sense That Stepping Into The Light Is Also A Powerful Metaphor For Consciousness, For The Birth Of The Knowing Mind, For The Simple And Yet Momentous Coming Of The Sense Of Self Into The World Of The Mental.

People Who Are Great Thinkers, In Science Or In Art, People Who Are Great Performers, Have To Have That Kind Of Capacity. Without That Kind Of Capacity, It's Extremely Difficult To Manage A High Level Of Performance Because You're Going To Get A Lot Of Extraneous Material Chipping Away At The Finery Of Your Thinking Or The Finery Of Your Motor Execution.