Juan

“Food disorders are rampant, for food offers archaic oral gratification and the immediate hint of emotional nourishment. Work addiction is common as we project our well-being upon such abstractions as success, getting ahead, economic security, and sundry other ways of avoiding the existential abyss over which we always hang. How many of us are comfortable with Walt Whitman’s invitation to loaf and invite the soul?”
― James Hollis, Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves

“I have not only been accompanied by my wife, Lydia, on this path, but I have also benefited from her involvement in the ideas that are presented here as The Order-Disorder Paradox. Her encouragement, unflagging interest, and insights have been a major driving force over the time it has taken me to write this book.”
― Nathan Schwartz-Salant, The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society

“Before this vision, I don’t remember having heard about this or about mystical happenings in general, and if I had, I’m certain I either paid such reports no heed or scoffed at them as superstition. My life had been devoted to scientific, rational pursuits, but the Light experience radically changed me.”
― Nathan Schwartz-Salant, The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society

“Since we share a common humanity, and somewhat common culture, we often share history-driven energies around money, power, sexuality, food, and the like. While our ancestors could project the origin of these splinter selves externally onto a Devil, or an Evil One, the modern has a greater likelihood of recognizing that these darker thoughts and acts come from within us, and that we, in the end, are responsible for them.”
― James Hollis, Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves