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“Human beings seem to exhibit an innate drive to forage for information in much the same way that other animals are driven to forage for food,” write Gazzaley and Rosen. “This ‘hunger’ is now fed to an extreme degree by modern technological advances that deliver highly accessible information.”
― Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

“In their quest for happiness, people mistake excitement of the mind for real happiness.”
― Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

“As Brewer explains in The Craving Mind, most addictions stem from a desire to feel better and/or to make a bad feeling go away. If you try to cut back on your phone use without first figuring out what you’re trying to achieve or avoid, you’re dooming yourself to failure.”
― Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

“there is no “unconscious” mind distinct from the conscious, for the “unconscious” mind is conscious, though not of itself, just as the eyes see but do not see themselves.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity