Aaron Hatfield

“I sank away from Thee, and I wandered, O my God, too much astray from Thee my stay, in these days of my youth, and I became to myself a barren land.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“The life also which here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion of its own, and a correspondence with all things beautiful here below.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“Is it a fact—or have I dreamt it—that by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? —Nathaniel Hawthorne”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“The cost of a thing is the amount of . . . life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness