Don’t put people, or anything else, on pedestals, not even your children. Avoid global labels such as genius or weirdo. Realize those closest get the benefit of the doubt and so do the most beautiful...

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers,...

Investor psychology is so fragile that there would be a what-does-the-Fed-see that-we-don’t mentality. I don’t think the market would benefit. The Fed would be best served by holding onto their ammunition to use if they...

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

…empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can...

A person will complain about his problems, unwilling to receive solutions, while demanding attention trough a victimization, reflecting lack of responsibility.

There’s one problem with all psychological knowledge – nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no insight into themselves at...

Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabonds, petty criminals and others who were unable to fit into society or take...

How would it alter Juliet’s love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she...

To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books.

A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen.

Sarah, insight doesn’t produce change.

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women...

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can’t fundamentally be altered.

He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In...

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature’s way

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are — or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe...

Instead of focusing on isolated objects and events, we can expand our fixed perspective and allow the deeper process (often taking the form of a mythic narrative of some sort) that is animating events to...

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. (“America: Three Audiences”)

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware...

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

All people have at least their own one theory of an ideal life, but not that which is ideally acceptable to one and all.

There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.

I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

I might not be the most intelligent one amongst my peers but with the little knowledge I acquired over the years, I was able to give back to the society that has made me the...

The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely … Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one...

Change your mind and change your whole life experience.

After all I’ve done for you’ has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Excerpt from “The Strength in Knowing”Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is

All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.

The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it’s been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing…. I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched,...

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda,...

A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely without hope of getting a wife, a mistress, or any kind of woman except — very rarely,...

Clever deceivers rarely tell outright falsehoods. It’s too risky. The art of deception is closely related to the magician’s craft: it involves knowing how to draw attention to a harmless place, to deflect it away...

Fantazie a sny jsou začátkem mnoha skutků a nic by nebylo horší než je podceňovat a snícímu brát odvahu k nim. Jde o to, jaký druh fantazií máme – zda nás vedou vpřed, anebo zda...

The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational judgment of the validity of the doctrine and of the values which it implies, although such...

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy was to look for good or at least better grounds–a search hid predisposing thoughts...

A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.