Enlightenment

When a man is suddenly disgusted by his anger, by the absurdity of it, then he’s not angry anymore. He’s enlightened.

Body language

What the mind suppresses, the body expresses.

Dis-ease begins in the mind.

Flesh chronicle

Memory is not primarily a mental function. The body is a flesh chronicle, a trove of old pain, of unresolved and still-percolating historical issues. Typically, difficult-to-diagnose illnesses take a long time to manifest.

Neighbours

When his son died, Emerson looked hard at grief. He later recalled it as a shallow emotion, depthless and unreal. No stoic lives far from the fact that we are born to die.

The death of sanity

Anger is not merely a troublesome emotion; it is the death of sanity.