“Music gives me a sense of self-sufficiency and nourishment. I don’t need anyone or anything. I bathe in it as in amniotic… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Although a youth culture was in evidence by the 1950s, the first obvious and dramatic manifestation of a culture generated by peer-orientation… — Gabor Maté Aging Copy Share Image
“Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A… — Gabor Mate Addiction Copy Share Image
“We do not have to look for diseases to explain why some people are not able to experience the full flowering of… — Gabor Maté Growth Copy Share Image
“Creatures of attachment are creatures of instinct and impulse. It doesn't feel good or right or proper to seek favor in the… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The chief and most damaging of the competing attachments that undermine parenting authority and parental love is the increasing bonding of our… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“We have noted that gut feelings are an important part of the body’s sensory apparatus, helping us to evaluate the environment and… — Gabor Maté Gut feelings Copy Share Image
“The major impairments of ADD — the distractibility, the hyperactivity and the poor impulse control — reflect, each in its particular way,… — Gabor Maté Attention deficit disorder Copy Share Image
“The biology of potential illness arises early in life. The brain’s stress-response mechanisms are programmed by experiences beginning in infancy, and so… — Gabor Maté Adult life Copy Share Image
“Nowadays it often takes two parents working full-time to secure the same standard of living one wage earner could provide thirty or… — Gabor Maté Best intentions Copy Share Image
“What is peer orientation? Orientation, the drive to get one's bearings and become acquainted with one's surroundings, is a fundamental human instinct… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“Intuitively we all know that it is better to feel than to not feel. Our emotions are not a luxury but an… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“In any disease, say smoking-induced lung or heart disease, organs and tissues are damaged and function in pathological ways. When the brain… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Human beings want not only to survive, but also to live. We long to experience life in all its vividness, with full,… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“Not every story has a happy ending [...], but the discoveries of science, the teachings of the heart and the revelations of… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“The body’s hormonal system is inextricably linked with the brain centres where emotions are experienced and interpreted. In turn, the hormonal apparatus… — Gabor Maté Immune system Copy Share Image
“The salient stressors in the lives of most human beings today — at least in the industrialized world — are emotional. Just… — Gabor Maté Economic development Copy Share Image
“Harm reduction is often perceived as being inimical to the ultimate purpose of “curing” addiction—that is, of helping addicts transcend their habits… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Nature’s ultimate goal is to foster the growth of the individual from absolute dependence to independence — or, more exactly, to the… — Gabor Maté Beginning of life Copy Share Image
“What [my patients] care about is my presence or absence as a human being. They gauge with unerring eye whether I am… — Gabor Maté Addiction-and-recovery Copy Share Image
“What characterizes an addiction?” asks the spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle. “Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the power… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Our difficulty or inability to perceive the experience of others…is all the more pronounced the more distant these experiences are from ours… — Gabor Maté Faith in humanity Copy Share Image
“The mainstream view of addiction in North America is that it's a choice, it's an ethical lapse, it's a bad decision, it's… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Just as an adult-oriented child is more vulnerable in relationship to his parents and teachers, peer-oriented kids are more so in relationship… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“Any passion can become an addiction; but then how to distinguish between the two? The central question is: who’s in charge, the… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
