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I think the way we react to things is a big indicator of our character and what type of person we are.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.

Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.

People have to know there is more to living than physical things.

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.