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“It is interesting to note that although our limbic system functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when our emotional "buttons" are pushed, we retain the ability to react as though we were a two year old, even when we are adults. As our higher cortical cells mature and become integrated in complex networks with other neurons, we gain the ability to take "new pictures" of the present moment. When we compare the new information of our thinking mind with the automatic reactivity of our limbic mind, we can reevaluate the current situation and purposely choose a more mature response.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.”
― Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.”
― Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic, and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible,”
― Ernest Becker