Andy Adam

“We live in an age in which there is too much information, less knowledge and even less wisdom. That ration needs to be reversed.
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Information flows amid our fingers like dry sand. It also gives us the illusion that we know the subject (and if we don't, we just "google" it) when, in truth, we know so little.
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Knowledge requires reading. Books. In-depth analyses. Investigative journalism.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“When we become more enraged, more informed about all that is happening, however, we fell more disappointed, anxious, angry, surrounded with negative feelings in the face of current news and fast-moving events. It is too much to deal with. We crave simplicity; we retreat into ourselves, into the familiar. This is a dangerous moment because it is when the populist demagogue enters into the picture, promising to simplify things for us.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“[...] It is about thinking of yourself, and your fellow human beings, in more fluid terms than solid categories.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“Hypnosis is only a form of focused concentration. You never give up control. You are always in charge. All hypnosis is selfhypnosis.”
― Brian Weiss, Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited