Women never bought Freud’s idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people’s imperfection, the criminal is much harsher than a good man), because he so wants to obtain trust...

The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation–abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a “virtue” that corrodes self-esteem.

Self-esteem is the way you regard yourself as either being worth your mother’s while to care for you, protect you and keep you safe and alive, to be present for you when you need her...

…it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to...

Therapy isn’t Radio.We don’t need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the lives of children subject to organised victimisation (eg Bibby 1996b, Itziti...

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything—evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing—it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind...

The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic paranoid delusion. But in 1797 it was something that had never been encountered before, and would emerge...

She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock...

Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to set the...

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes… Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product,...

Institutionalized:Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long — they’ll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars.

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

The psyche is the essence of humanity, its greatest instrument, an indefinable, multidimensional creative entity of enormous scope, subtlety, and power that eludes all attempts to explain it, including this one. The psyche becomes impossible...

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.

Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions?

Everyone needed an obsession.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

We all have issues & we have usually come by them honestly.

DENIALDefense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.

We think, in the short run, psychology drives the market but in the long run, fundamentals drive the market. We see very low inflation and no inflationary pressures. We think, going forward, expectations have come...

The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is that it can...

‎”…the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant.

A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh,...

The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one’s mind...

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

There is no divinity achieved unless the individual mind submits itself to a mind supposed supreme. The Bible in its simplest form is simply that—a book. When you give it your mind it becomes powerful.

Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks the streets with dripping fangs, fear flies down narrow alleyways on leather wings, and jealousy spins sticky...

The Elsinore’s bow tilted skyward while her stern fell into a foaming valley. Not a man had gained his feet. Bridge and men swept back toward me and fetched up against the mizzen-shrouds. And then...

İnanç’ın, bir kesinlik ve bir emin olma durumu olduğu kısmen doğrudur. İnanç, olasılığın gerçekçiliği konusunda emin olmaktır ama kesin tahmin anlamında emin olma değildir.

We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we’re looking for, or what we already know…what we see is amazingly limited.

Reverse psychology, I do it in front of the mirror.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Many Christians… find themselves defeated by the most psychological weapon that Satan uses against them. This weapon has the effectiveness of a deadly missile. Its name? Low self-esteem. Satan’s greatest psychological weapon is a gut...

What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On...

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him – because broken machines are easier to fix.

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively–which means to live authentically–is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in...

Here’s the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It’s not that simple. We’re all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting...