Jiri

“To understand how salt transforms a recipe of bread, you must watch it work in context. Likewise, each ingredient of emotion must be studied in the context of the rest of the brain that influences it.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

“our emotions aren’t built-in, waiting to be revealed. They are made. By us. We don’t recognize emotions or identify emotions: we construct our own emotional experiences, and our perceptions of others’ emotions, on the spot, as needed, through a complex interplay of systems. Human beings are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits buried deep within animalistic parts of our highly evolved brain: we are architects of our own experience.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

“Creating and sharing is in the lifeblood of our species, and it is through this dynamic where we construct our reality and coexist within it. To create is to express what you’ve discovered about yourself and the world. And through this process, you’ll harvest meaning from the experiences that have deep roots in your mind.”
― Lawrence Yeo, The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust Yourself

“How do you pay your twenty-five-year-old son back for not being there for him from the time he was twelve? It can’t be done. I started the paragraph saying it’s an irony, but actually it’s a tragedy. It’s tragic because people spend much of their lives waiting for debts to be paid that cannot be paid. The opportunity to make things right is long gone, but the anger remains. And in many cases it intensifies … and spreads.”
― Andy Stanley, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You