Top Highlights

• anything that promotes a sense of isolation often leads to illness and suffering. Anything that promotes a sense of love and intimacy, connection and community, is healing.
• “Social support is defined as information leading the subject to believe that he is cared for and loved, esteemed, and a member of a network of mutual obligations.”
• anything that promotes feelings of love and intimacy is healing; anything that promotes isolation, separation, loneliness, loss, hostility, anger, cynicism, depression, alienation, and related feelings often leads to suffering, disease, and premature death from all causes.
• I want to know how he learned—the experiences he had, the mistakes he made—not just what he now knows.
• had a clear vision at age nineteen that no accomplishments or material rewards would ever bring me lasting peace and happiness. This spiritual realization is at the heart of virtually all religious and spiritual traditions, yet it was too much for me to handle at such a young age.