My favorite quote (pg. 23):

“The truth needs to be experienced. Humans have the need to describe, to explain, to express what we perceive, but when we experience the truth, there are no words to describe it. Whoever claims, ‘This is the truth.’ is lying without even knowing it. We can perceive truth with our feelings, but as soon as we try to describe it with words, we distort it and it’s no longer the truth. It’s our story! It’s a projection based on reality that is only true for us, but still we try to put our experience into words and this something wonderful really. It’s the greatest art of every human.”

“Your inner man and inner woman
have been at war
they are both wounded
tired
and in need of care
it is time
to put down the sword
that divides them in two”

“In dualistic thinking, we treat the other as an object outside of ourselves, some thing to better, to control, to distrust, to dominate, or to own. Dualism breeds suspicion, confusion, mis-perception, contempt, or a lack of trust.”

“Polarization leads one to view the other as an “it”

“We see the other as the enemy, and we rationalize our criticism, judgment, and the polarization we create by arrogantly saying that we are “correct” or that we have God or the Goddess on our side”

These are my favorite chocolates by far-they are so good they are orgasmic!!

I took it in doses and stuck to the things I believed I needed to learn. It’s a rather extensive law book but this book is of those things that covers parts of the law you didn’t even know existed.

A lot of things finally began to make sense.

A good book other than the notion that one must conform to the idea that alcoholism is a disease. You don’t just wake up one day with the affliction. If you’re an alcoholic you’ve made sure you’re one.

This movie begins as a narrative from an alien and makes rather humorous observations of human behavior. Contrary to the title this movie isn’t educational and does have a plot.

This book is fascinating. The author has a Ph.D in Nutrition. She gives you a crash course in neurochemistry and then tells you specifically what mineral, vitamin, or supplemnent. Like the importance of Omega-3 EFAs, amino acids and the B-vitamins for people with Depression.

“We all seek satisfaction. But is it’s esscence in pleasure-the man on the beach with a cold beer in hand? No says neuroscientist Berns. The greatest reward is the fruit of one’s own labor. It helps, too, when the challenge is wildly unpredictable. Brens akes us on a roadtrip to satisfaction: He visits the pleasure and pain of a suburban S&M club, examines why we lose the taste for sushi when we eat it all the time, ponders why a person would run 100 miles and befriends crossowrd puzzlers who find that “Aha!” experience when everything just clicks.” From Psychology Today

“An intellectual history of a biological urge. Russell probes the 19th century fascination with fastin artists, introduces us to an obese man who lost weight by eating nothing at all for a year and tells the tale of underground Jewish doctors studying famine in the Warsaw ghetto. Unnatural History explains why the average hunger striker can last about 40 days without food, tells us how to best refeed a person on the edge of starvation and tries to explain why nearly a billion people worldwide don’t get enoug to eat. A hugely original and fascinating book”-From Psychology today

Most excellant if you put them in the toaster first.