the soul seemed to expand as if someone had got to work on it with a bicycle pump.
“The body increases its manufacture and release of serotonin, the neurotransmitter associated with rest, repair, contentment, well-being, and health, even with leadership and success. Serotonin also helps the body adapt to change and helps regulate respiration, heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature. Low manufacture and release of serotonin is linked with a host of health and behavior problems, from depression to overt aggression and suicide.7”
― The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment Throughout Time — And How You Can Cultivate Them
― The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment Throughout Time — And How You Can Cultivate Them
“no country in the last fifty years has emerged from poverty without expanding access to contraceptives.”
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.”
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“As Edward Carpenter puts it: Of the existence of this [type of experience] there is evidence all down History; and witnesses, far removed from each other in time and space and race and language, and perfectly unaware of each other’s utterances, agree so remarkably in their testimony, that there is left no doubt that the experience is as much a matter of fact as any other human experience.5”
― The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment Throughout Time — And How You Can Cultivate Them
― The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment Throughout Time — And How You Can Cultivate Them
“We will have to decide which approaches we wish to emulate from abroad, which structures we wish to dismantle from before, which strategies we wish to retrieve from our past, and which institutions we may need to fashion completely anew.”
― Trust: America's Best Chance
― Trust: America's Best Chance
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