Jerry Cagle

“Eventually their bodies adapt to avoid such unexpected attacks by staying in a state of alert, by constantly overbreathing in an effort to keep their carbon dioxide as low as possible. “What anxious patients could be experiencing is a completely natural reaction—they’re reacting to an emergency in their bodies,” said Feinstein. “It could be that anxiety, at its root, isn’t a psychological problem at all.” This approach is all very theoretical, Feinstein warned, and needs to be rigorously tested, which is what he will do in the coming years. But if it’s true, it could explain why so many drugs don’t work for panic, anxiety, and other fear-based conditions, and how slow and steady breathing therapy does.”
― James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

“Some languages, unlike the Indo-European ones, do not separate subject and verb so that an action is never seen as distinct from the actor.”
― Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds

“In Europe’s Middle Ages, the church considered wolves “the devil’s dog,” literal proof that Satan was out for a stroll, right around here somewhere. Wolves weren’t just exterminated; they were persecuted—burned at the stake like witches and heretics, and publicly hanged. They were dangerous not just physically but also as tempters to evil deeds. Humans were occasionally put on trial under suspicion of being wolf charmers or werewolves. Centuries later, in America, trapped wolves were sometimes set on fire, or had their lower jaws cut off or wired shut before being released to slowly starve. Doug Smith describes this as “a vengeance applied to no other animal.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

“Anti-fascism is many things, but perhaps most fundamentally it is an argument about the historical continuity between different eras of far-right violence and the many forms of collective self-defense that it has necessitated across the globe over the past century.”
― Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook