I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal public asylum in London, it had accepted dangerous and insane paupers...

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new...

Maslow’s five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth...

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

It takes two to tango” isn’t even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on his or her own. But the Theory of Mutual Blame arose sometime before...

The only part of you that hurts when you’re given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

I understand the mechanism of my own thinking. I know precisely how I know, and my understanding is recursive. I understand the infinite regress of this self-knowing, not by proceeding step by step endlessly, but...

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions...

It’s not that there is no small talk…It’s that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end…Sensitive people…’enjoy small talk only after they’ve gone deep’ says Strickland. ‘When sensitive people are...

We use concepts like “consciousness”—“mind”—“personality,” but we don’t really know yet what these things are.’ He was shaking his head. ‘Not really. Not at all.

Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells…

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

What would it be like to think what a gerbil thinks, from a gerbil’s point of view? Kind of like Thomas Nigel’s 1974 paper, ‘What Is It Like to Be a Bat?’ There’s a subjective...

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”Aristotle

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trendis statism. Philosophically, the goal is theobliteration of reason;psychologically, it is theerosion of ambition.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there...

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

Seven Rules Formulated for Teaching Arithmetic:1) Consider the situation the pupils faces.2) Consider the response you wish to connect with.3) Form the bond; do not expect it to come by miracle.4) Other things being equal,...

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows.

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably...

Davranışı yönlendiren itici güçleri bilirsek, yalnızca şimdiki zamanda gerçekleştirilen davranışı anlamakla kalmayız, bir kişinin değiştirilmiş koşullar altında nasıl davranabileceği konusunda da akla uygun varsayımlarda bulunabiliriz.

The archetypal image of the redeemer serpent is certainly placed here in opposition to the serpents of evil that battle with it. But why do they both have the same form if there is only...

I want to open a broken marriage repair shop. I’m not a counselor or psychologist, but I am a fan of the magical bonding that occurs between two people when duct tape binds them together...

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period...

A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of...

The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99…There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book…and leafed through it…I closed the manual. “I wonder if I’ve...

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This...

The most critical of these new religious developments for twentieth-century religious liberalism were a renewed and transformed emphasis on mystical practice and experience, the healing ministry known as mind cure, and the rise of modern...

Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

It may well have been, too, that the smiling moderation with which she faced and answered these blasphemies, that this tender and hypocritical rebuke appeared to her frank and generous nature as a particularly shameful...

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real — it is a passing will o’ the...