Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

I got an extra hour's nap.

Do your practice and all is coming.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.