Maxwell Maltz Quotes

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

I think your imagination is your reality

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.