“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.”

“Life is a choice between being passive in its face and being active for its sake.”

“Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality
itself.”

“Whatever we call reality, it is revealed to us only through the active construction in which we participate.”

“That passivity was the essence of the problem. The human being was intended to be passive only in a condition of fatigue, and not always then. Too much passivity of body produced surplus fat, short-windedness, indigestion: passivity of mind produced the same symptoms on the mental level. a feeling of spiritual dyspepsia. Since the average human being has no purposes that are not connected with the activities of keeping alive, the black room was bound to produce passivity, increasing dullness, a state in which the mind is at once awake and static, motionless, stagnant. This sense of dullness was nothing less than the collapse of the sense of reality and of values, the retreat into one's inner world.”

“The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.”

“The student is to read history actively not passively.”

“Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive.”

“An active personality – is a challenge to a passive person.”

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”