“The first time someone I loved left me behind…I didn’t know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.”

“The mind is the playing field of consciousness. The philosophy of the mind includes the ideas, rules, and essence it creates and follows in the process of living, learning, adapting, evaluating and assimilating.”