Kathy Luber

“When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”
― Socrates

“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

“The salient stressors in the lives of most human beings today — at least in the industrialized world — are emotional. Just like laboratory animals unable to escape, people find themselves trapped in lifestyles and emotional patterns inimical to their health. The higher the level of economic development, it seems, the more anaesthetized we have become to our emotional realities. We no longer sense what is happening in our bodies and cannot therefore act in self-preserving ways. The physiology of stress eats away at our bodies not because it has outlived its usefulness but because we may no longer have the competence to recognize its signals.”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

“One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island