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“Parents report that Active Listening when a child is hurt and cries vigorously frequently brings about a dramatic and instantaneous cessation of the crying, once the child is certain her parent knows and understands how badly she feels or how much she is afraid. For the child, getting this understanding of her feelings is what she needs most.”
― Thomas Gordon, Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children

“To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch.
Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to touch. It moves lungs and throat and tongue and lips, it vibrates the air as it wings its way to the listener. The tongue grows dry, saliva spatters, the lips crack. When she found that physical process too much to bear, she became paradoxically more verbose.”
― Han Kang, Greek Lessons

“These pillars are: Attention, which amplifies the information we focus on. Active engagement, an algorithm also called “curiosity,” which encourages our brain to ceaselessly test new hypotheses. Error feedback, which compares our predictions with reality and corrects our models of the world. Consolidation, which renders what we have learned fully automated and involves sleep as a key component”
― Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

“There is someone special for everyone. Often there are two or three or even
four. They come from different generations. They travel across oceans of time
and the depths of heavenly dimensions to be with you again. They come from
the other side, from heaven. They look different, but your heart knows them.
Your heart has held them in arms like yours in the moon-filled deserts of Egypt
and the ancient plains of Mongolia. You have ridden together in the armies of
forgotten warrior-generals, and you have lived together in the sand-covered
caves of the Ancient Ones. You are bonded together throughout eternity, and
you will never be alone.”
― Brian L. Weiss, Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited