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I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.


Tara Brach


#emotions #spirituality #life

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.


Sarah Vowell


#coffee #history #coffee

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.


Ellis Peters


#conduct-of-life #free-will #freedom #giving #life

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.


Vladimir Nabokov


#britain #life #reading #school #life

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.


Derrick Jensen


#life-experience #schooling #time #experience

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.


Richard von Krafft-Ebing


#gender #homosexuality #lesbianism #morality #nature

I once saw a politician walking a dog, and I thought, “How absurd—an animal walking an animal.” Then I thought, “If given the choice, I’d rather vote for the dog.”



Jarod Kintz


#animal #choice #dog #pet #politicians

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.


Douglas Adams


#novel

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?


Margaret Landon


#love #love

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.


Michael Pollan


#chocolate #chocolate-cake #connotations #food #french