Anna

“The individual who acts with bias engages with an expectation instead of reality. That expectation is assembled from the artifacts of culture: headlines and history books, myths and statistics, encounters real and imagined, and selective interpretations of reality that confirm prior beliefs. Biased individuals do not see a person. They see a person-shaped daydream.”
― Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias: What the New Science of Overcoming Bias Teaches Us About Transforming Our Lives, Our Companies, Our World

“What we’ll always have is something we lost”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“I decided that instead of resisting everything, I would agree to everything. I began to greet whatever arose in my awareness with a silently whispered "yes".”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

“Over time, I came to see bias as a kind of soul violence, an attack not just on the material conditions of one’s life—on one’s choices and possibilities—but an assault on one’s sense of self.”
― Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias: What the New Science of Overcoming Bias Teaches Us About Transforming Our Lives, Our Companies, Our World