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"Such, such were the joys When we all -- girls and boys -- In our youth-time were seen On the echoing Green."
“He believes in No-God, and he worships him,”
― Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
― Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
“I’m lonely,” I tell her. “Read something,” she says, turning the page.”
― Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories
― Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories
“The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux and his colleagues have shown that the only way we can consciously access the emotional brain is through self-awareness, i.e. by activating the medial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that notices what is going on inside us and thus allows us to feel what we’re feeling.5 (The technical term for this is “interoception”—Latin for “looking inside.”)”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.”
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“Later, when I started to date, when I would go to girls’ houses and their mothers and fathers would ask, “What do your parents do?” I’d say, “They’re divorced,” as though it were a full-time job. They’d look at me, instantly dismissive, as though I too was doomed to divorce, as though domestic instability was genetically passed down.”
― Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories
― Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories
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