Quotes from Paul Gilbert

depression haunts the lives of many

There are very fast-acting pathways in your brain that, with the first flush of threat, bypass your frontal cortex and rational thinking.12

it's still something of a shock to recognise just how 'multiple' we are.

Perplexed and distressed, he fled the palace under the cover of night, leaving behind his wife and child

the more self-focused we become in trying to avoid pain and service our pleasures, the more we fall victim to greed and not sharing

a root cause of suffering, according to the Buddha, is our fierce sense of self-centredness. Interestingly

it is not our fault that we are the way we are with all our drives, passions and aversions.

So much of what we are then has been completely outside of our control and is not our fault. •

the untrained mind can verge on insanity because it cannot regulate its own passions and wild emotions; and for this reason there are so many terrible cruelties and injustices throughout the world. However

The constant pursuit of material possessions/money status or sexual relationships, and so on, can be problematic.

This materialistic and competitive striving and needing 'to have and own' has been linked to deteriorating mental health, especially in young people.16

if we stimulate the affiliative system it puts them in touch with a loneliness, linked to the kindness they wanted (e.g. as a child) but didn't get.