Jiri

“And just as a heart attack has the potential to destroy your body, so spiritual heart disease has the potential to destroy you and squeeze the life out of your most valuable relationships.”
― Andy Stanley, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You

“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

“No matter how rigorously you apply reason to reduce uncertainty, there will always be a great level of uncertainty you have to accept.”
― Lawrence Yeo, The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust Yourself

“When you trust your intuition, you recognize your innate capabilities and see all the ways in which they fit within the world. There is an alignment between who you are and what you offer, so you develop the confidence to lean into what makes you unique. Conditioning, on the other hand, is filled with tension because you’re constantly trying to insert yourself into unwelcoming terrain. Instead of leaning into your innate curiosities, you shrink away from them and mold yourself according to the preferences of others. And in doing so, you open the floodgates of suffering because this terrain is where fear, envy, and competition reside.”
― Lawrence Yeo, The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust Yourself