I am currently reading this book.
“The business elite profits from the stress generated by the system that gives them so much power. Big Food, Big Pharma…” pp. 280-281 “Stress depletes the serotonin / satisfaction system in the brain, causing its function to shift to mechanisms related to dopamine.” “It is not about what you eat… it is about what eats you.”
Similar to a quote from the film “Beautiful Boy” (2018) by Felix van Groeningen.
“One day I woke up in a hospital, someone asked me “What’s your problem?” And I said, “I’m an alcoholic and an addict.” And he said, “No, that’s how you have been treating your problem.”
“If you constantly live based on your defense mechanisms, you constantly activate your body’s stress system,” p. 295
“A culture that does not honor people, but despises them. “Gives people a false representation of who they really are and even forces them to suppress who they really are…” p. 304
“The intellect becomes a much more intelligent instrument when it lets the heart speak, when it opens itself up to that within us that resonates with the truth… You can know a truth that is healing by feeling it, not merely by examining how logical it is.” p. 336
“The capacity to heal stems from the willingness to do so, to take on that responsibility… It is about the willingness to reconsider our perspective. This willingness is not a one-time declaration, but a commitment from moment to moment…” p. 337