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Heart so Bourdain, mind so Botton

Listen. I am not easily disturbed, but holy shit

"After all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error"

How many children had this happened to? How many children were like me, floating like plankton in the wide ocean? I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children, between friends, family, things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost, more easily than anyone could imagine.

God this book reads like poetry

the feminine urge to turn yourself off and back on again

"I could feel the certainty of a reality leeching out of me like calcium from a bone. I was starving my mind into obliqueness. I felt less and less. Words came and I spoke them in my head, then nestled in on tue sound of them, got lost in the music"

Mother is quire literally mothering

Bof the chapter on how hormones shape behavior across all species is radicalizing me in a few ways I will not name

Daniel and I are taking turns reading this to each other before bed and I can't imagine a better evening routine

Spectacular

I will not stand for the Carl Jung slander

I get why Obama likes this book

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I took Robert Wright's Buddhism and Modern Psychology class from Princeton on Coursera and it was great but??? I was not expecting this book to be SO dense??? I was expecting a little philosophival essay in a relaxed tone but this is incredibly research-heavy.

I was looking for a break from neuroscience nonfiction and I failed miserably

Secular Buddhism analyzed through a neuroscientific and evolutionary biology lens. This hits like every kind of nerdiness I embody.

Also why th does goodreads say this book is 11 pages long

Another day, another Thich Nhat Hanh book. The sexual tension between me and becoming a Buddhist nun increases by the day.

"We should not, then, be hesitant about challenging man with a potential meaning for him to fulfill. It is only thus that we evoke his will to meaning (...) What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task"

"Sometimes the frustrated will to meaning is vicariously compensated for by a will to power (...), the will to money"

I've lost counts at how many times I've wept while reading of the brutality within the concentration camps.

But to think of these people who so desperately longed for freedom, endured their suffering through dreams of returning home, finally achieved this freedom and knocked on that door only to discover that their homes and families are gone and never to come back... spirit-shattering

This book is ripping me open

Page 35 and I've already had to put the book down several times to breathe deep and collect myself before continuing

A gruesome, but necessary read so far.