“If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is a...”

“On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physi...”

“Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.”

“Prior to the monotheistic Yahweh, the gods made sense, in that they had familiar, if supra-human appetitesthey didnt just want a lamb shank, they wanted the best lamb shank, wanted to seduce all th...”

“We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that wer...”

“Life isn't about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable”

“... to pause is to win & to rest can actually be part of the victory.”

“The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine ...”

“It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?”

“My Personalityunfolding before youlike a Swiss Army knife.”