All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivisible and indissoluble. The presence of the girl was pathetic (a few...

We live in a world of constant noise which captures our minds even when we are not aware of it

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out...

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand.

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen it as an aristocratic fad: Mesmer (by this stage long gone to Germany and Switzerland) had made a fortune from...

Don’t let one bad moment ruin your day. Think of it as a bad minute, not a bad day, and you’ll be OK. Stress begins when your worry list is longer than your gratitude list....

pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Whether the Fed goes 25 or 50 basis points next week might mean something for managing market psychology, but it doesn’t mean nearly as much for the broader economy. Their language regarding their future considerations...

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It’s that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana’s don’t do psychological consistency....

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emotions!A. This is one of the worst illusions we have. We think that negative emotions are produced by circumstances,...

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

The tourists had money and we needed it; they only asked in return to be lied to and deceived and told that single most important thing, that they were safe, that their sense of security—national,...

Most of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on vacancy, the sounds of the world melt into a confused unity, the attention is dispersed...

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard...

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often...

We’re always contradicting ourselves.We want people to tell us apart…….yet we don’t want them to be able to.We want people to get to know us……but we also want them to keep their distance.We’ve always longed...

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of “the common people,” who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined...

This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.

Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.

If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.

Memory is dynamic, it’s alive.

Complex Trauma” to describe the experience of multiple and/or chronic and prolonged, developmentally adverse traumatic events, most often of an interpersonal nature (e.g., sexual or physical abuse, war, community violence) and early-life onset. These exposures...

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it...

The campaign for ‘no’ is much better organized in terms of marketing and psychology. They ask the question; ‘Do you feel protected and do you think the government is protecting you?’ and the answer is...

Saying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, ‘Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.’ And...

To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long – that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form,...

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun...

While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has various sicknesses,...

Ancak, tam anlamıyla kendisi olmaya doğru bir adım atmaya çalışan herkes, korkusuzluk yönünde yeni bir adım atıldığında, çok kesin bir güç ve sevinç duygusunun uyandığını bilir. Yeni bir yaşam evresinin başlamış olduğunu duyumsar. Goethe’nin dizelerindeki...

If we are enveloped in images, we are also enveloped in forms, in spirit, which is nature, and in nature, which is spirit. Daily and continually we associate with this unified world of nature and...

I still think that, in a way, I can’t get past half my childhood dogmas.

young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not only temporarily disturbed by such deprivation, but may in some cases suffer long-term...

Most of you guys can’t see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There’s more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is a methodological rule, and since the demarcation between science and nonscience is vague....

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.