The brains of the lonely people activated much more quickly when confronted with negative cues, and they were more likely to rate neutral cues as dangerous.

The whole purpose is to keep playing.

A regular movement practice teaches you that breakthroughs do not happen overnight.

productive activity: when one’s activity is “a manifestation of their powers; when the person, their activity, and the result of their activity are one.”

“I trust you much more knowing you are honest and real,” he told me. “I’m more comfortable opening up to you about my own insecurities, like this one, because of it.”

As if OCD was the extreme version of my usual mode of being, only pointed in a dark direction.

most everyone dislikes pretending that they have everything together. No one does, and keeping up the act is exhausting. When you let your guard down and get real, others don’t view you as weak. Rather, they are relieved. They think: Finally, someone who isn’t faking it. Someone who is more like me. They gain the permission and confidence to stop

You can’t work on something in a meaningful way if you are fighting it at the same time.

Each of the participants focused on the film at hand and not on some hidden personal agenda. . . . The members saw each other as peers.”