John Mathis
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“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“Excuses are things like sausages stuffed with reason, in the skin of a lie.”
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“A person who doesn’t understand flowers might tug on them to make them grow. A person who doesn’t speak the language of someplace might misread the locals’ sentiments and intentions. Yet you are already such a flower, and your inner locals—your emotions, your body, your thoughts—are already speaking to you. If you don’t learn the language of your experience, then how can you understand yourself? How can you help yourself?”
― The Art of Talking to Yourself
― The Art of Talking to Yourself

“Incorporating general intelligence, bodily intelligence, emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence, political intelligence and social intelligence in AI systems are part of the future deep learning research. ”
― Compassionate Artificial Intelligence
― Compassionate Artificial Intelligence

“After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness that those who sleep in comfortable houses may never know.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark
― Learning to Walk in the Dark

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