Humans have something akin to brain damage. To neurophysiologists, who research cognitive functions, the emotionally driven appear to suffer from cognitive deficits that mimic certain types of brain injuries. … Anyone with an intense emotional interest in a subject loses the ability to observe it objectively: You selectively perceive events. You ignore data and facts [...]

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

[The Nine Insights] All that any of us have to do is suspend our doubts and distractions just long enough… Even though we occasionally have the clear insight that something more is going on in life, our habitual way of thinking is to consider such ideas unknowable and then to shrug off the awareness altogether. [...]

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. – Nietzsche Central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. Life holds a [...]

A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen

How and why do we numb ourselves to our own experiences? How and why do we deafen ourselves to the voices of others? We are too afraid to explore the potential for life and love and happiness we each carry inside. You may not destroy someone’s world unless you are prepared to offer a better [...]

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The name given to the one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point. The Tipping Point is the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point. Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things. Yawning is incredibly contagious. Epidemics are examples of geometric [...]