Karl Pilkington Quotes

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

What I most want you to understand is that your body is continuously and convincingly sending messages to your brain, and you get to control the content of those messages.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?

The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.

Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction.

You... and only you choose your thoughts.

The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

A thought is a hard thing to control.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.