#attachment

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#emotion #meaning #memory #neuropsychology #life

There are many different ways of approaching parenting as there are cultures. However, in non-industrialized cultures, the similarities are also striking. Extended nursing, co-sleeping, carrying the baby in close physical contact, responding promptly to cries or distress, never leaving a baby alone, are all virtually universal in traditional societies that have not become overly "westernized". ↗

— Ingrid Bauer

#parenting #nature

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. ↗

— George Washington

#actions #attachment #convince #criterion #every

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement. ↗

— John Hawkes

#academy award #amazing #announcement #attachment #award

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#believe #between #deserves #distinction #fuzzy

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music. ↗

— Larry Mullen

#because #business #deep #everything #invested

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#body #constraints #forgetfulness #freedom #lethe

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#any #attachment #challenges #clean #doing

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attachment #concerned #even #fiction #fiction writer