Daniel

“Helplessness and immobilization keep people from utilizing their stress hormones to defend themselves. When that happens, their hormones still are being pumped out, but the actions they’re supposed to fuel are thwarted. Eventually, the activation patterns that were meant to promote coping are turned back against the organism and now keep fueling inappropriate fight/flight and freeze responses. In order to return to proper functioning, this persistent emergency response must come to an end. The body needs to be restored to a baseline state of safety and relaxation from which it can mobilize to take action in response to real danger.”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“What if, instead of seeking oblivion by escaping from the world, we
turn toward it? What if instead of leaving the world behind, we
immerse ourselves in it?”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“We enjoy being outraged. We respond to it as a reward.”
― Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

“[...]heaven is such that all people of every religion whatever who live rightly have a place there.”
― Emanuel Swedenborg, Divine providence (1972) ISBN: 4880890065 [Japanese Import]