Thomas Vodrazka

“Brain-scan studies have shown that the same parts of the brain that mediate physical pain also mediate the pain of social rejection.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“Reason has its effect not by directly pushing back against a feeling but by fortifying the feeling that does do the pushing back.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“when you can’t focus on your breath because thoughts keep intruding. But if you’re paying close attention to this “failure” to meditate, then, of course, it isn’t a failure to meditate—because paying attention to whatever is happening is mindfulness meditation.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“When we have that basis of wisdom about the nature of thought, then we have more power to choose, okay, which thoughts are healthy… which thoughts are not so healthy—those we can let go.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment