“I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will commit your whole life to trying. Every second you have is somehow for it.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“Your river of feelings might feel like it’s flowing over you, but actually you’re the river’s source.”
― How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
― How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
“We are, I believe, in the midst of a revolution in our understanding of emotion, the mind, and the brain—a revolution that may compel us to radically rethink such central tenets of our society as our treatments for mental and physical illness, our understanding of personal relationships, our approaches to raising children, and ultimately our view of ourselves. Other scientific disciplines have seen revolutions of this kind, each one a momentous shift away from centuries of common sense. Physics moved from Isaac Newton’s intuitive ideas about time and space to Albert Einstein’s more relative ideas, and eventually to quantum mechanics. In biology, scientists carved up the natural world into fixed species, each having an ideal form, until Charles Darwin introduced the concept of natural selection.”
― How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
― How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
“Women have to find autonomy before they can achieve wholeness. Examining”
― The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
― The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
“As Ram Dass puts it, “The ego is a tiny room. But the soul can merge into the One.”
― The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul
― The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul
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