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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their ...more
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James Nestor
“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

Deena Metzger
“If the journal is the jumble of raw material—blood, bones, sinews—and a poem is the cell, the impulse, the story is the entire animal.”
Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds

Carlos Fuentes
“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”
Carlos Fuentes

Deena Metzger
“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

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” — John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780)”
Mike Sawyer, Finding Our True Political Center: Through the Coming Revolution in Voting

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