Sublime

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.

neuroscience research has shown that we possess two distinct forms of self-awareness: one that keeps track of the self across time and one that registers the self in the present moment.

Memory is shown to be not so much a library but more a repository of ready-to-run routines that enable our daily living.