Excuses are a promise of repetition.

You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul....

This is the law of nature that every person who is born has to go through certain kind of painful experiences. Thepainful issues keep coming throughout life.As you progress on the spiritual path their impact...

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

The volatility measures are falling with this snapback and there is a short-term shift in psychology — there’s a lot of bargain-hunting going on out there.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us – all having lodgment at one time...

Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.

The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not...

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon; it is what consciousness is _about_ that is complex. It is presumably this fact that is the reason many...

No, I’m not a nerd. The only thing I nerd out about is psychology magazines.

A mind is a terrible thing; waste it.

The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a...

I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP throughout her sessions with him. His view reflects the fundamental mistake that untrained...

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

Everything you say, everything you do and every decision you make comes back to you. If you want to make friends, be friendly. If you want to be rich, be generous, if you want to...

Why we ask questions: Questions are the basis of human freedom. Our mind, as a part of our self experience, is curious and always challenging that part of us that can think about the essence...

Primitiv si minimálně uvědomuje sám sebe a současně se maximálně vztahuje k objektu, který na něj dokonce může vyvíjet přímý magický nátlak. Celá primitivní magie a náboženství spočívají v těchto magických vztazích k objektu, jež....

Ego depletion comes from American psychologist Roy Baumeister, who believes that enduring something stressful exhausts our capacity for willpower to the extent that we give in to our temptations that we would rather avoid.

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

There is a saying that, according to what a person’s mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil’s face.

It’s all in the mind.

Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions,...

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague Danny Oppenheimer refuted a myth prevalent among undergraduates about the vocabulary that professors...

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

Çoğu insan Kafka’nın ihtiyarına benzer. Umut ederler ama yüreklerinin sesini, itkisini dinleme ve ona göre davranma yetisinden yoksundurlar; bürokratlar onlara yeşil ışık yakmadığı sürece beklerler de beklerler.

He hadn’t yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the...

Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust beautifully describes: We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with...

J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, “Littlewood’s Miscellany.” He said the average person is alert for about eight hours every day,...

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason that one human being’s intensely personal tests and triumphs can be...

The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil—it is merely a restatement of the mystery—and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by...

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn’t my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I...

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.

Angie: “How do I pitch these ideas to her?”Mira: “From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children...

He’s the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you’re high it’s tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you...

Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.

What if I said, there was a way

If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it is only 0.1 percent of...

SCREW CHILDREN! That’s the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don’t comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with...

I’m freeeee… SPLAT!”.