All quotes from
Martin’s book
Desire is always
linked to a story, and to a gap that needs to be filled: a yearning that intrudes, agitates and
motivates human behavior both consciously and unconsciously.
We desire
whatever it is – the peace, the person, the thing, the period in our lives –
we’re convinced we’re lacking.
Are we
aware of the haphazard sequence of small data we leave behind us every day –
the rituals, habits, gestures and preferences that coalesce to expose who we
really are inside?
No matter
how insignificant it may first appear, everything in life tells a story.
When
people cry, it creates a “bookmark” in their brains ---- it is a moment, or
experience, they are unlikely to forget.
When
you surrender to apprehension, or worry, or nerves, you effectively place a
filter over your senses and are no longer able to see what’s right in front of
you.
Ironically,
our insistence on being happy all the time almost guarantees unhappiness, if
only by creating the fear that you’re not measuring up to other people’s levels
of contentment, wealth or well-being.
The Twin
Self has two elements, both of which are linked to desire: what we had once,
but lost, and what we dreamed about having but never possessed.
If you
want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the
jungle.
