Insights from Day 2 at CN705
- The primary function of the brain is not to remember but to forget.
- Feel-good movement cushions dysphoria and avoidance of anger, sadness and anxiety.
- Feeling bad is an important alarm system that causes pain to prompt changes.
- By encouraging cheap success it has produced a generation of very expensive failures!
- James Packer: “The shift of Christian interest away from the pursuit of holiness to focus on fun and fulfillment, ego-massage and techniques for present success, … is a sad and scandalous fact, and one that needs to be reversed.”
- The human brain is designed to deliver happiness.
- Depression can in fact be a healing emotion – if you cooperate with it.
- Contemplative spirituality is much needed in this highly stressful world for us to maintain our mental and emotional health.
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