psyche” not merely a question-mark arbitrarily confined within the skull, but rather a door that opens upon the human world from a world beyond, now and again allowing strange and unseizable potencies to act upon...

Without energy being invested in resisting the unwanted or dueling with fears, we have more energy and attention available for noticing not only the disturbing, but the wonderful…When we are not fixated on threat and...

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

How do you know if your inner voice or sense of guidance is your deeper-self speaking its wisdom, your unconscious childhood programming, or the voice of your Aunt Matilda? Discerning the difference between an automatic...

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.

Tutku insanın, amaçlarına ulaşma çabası gösterme yeteneğidir.

Enquanto a consciência patriarcal aniquila o tempo e ultrapassa os lentos processos de transformação e evolução da natureza através do uso deliberado de experimentação e calculo, a consciência matriarcal permanece pesa ao encantamento da lua...

…it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

În clipa c nd ți se impune să nu te g ndești la un lucru, te vei g ndi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.

It seems that there’s a part of our psyche that doesn’t know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company

Is that the ultimate need? To secure some agent to act as a salve, a bandage, a cover-up, concealer over the black eye, as opposed to facing the issue head on. Nobody wants to address...

One of the great self-deceptions–and one of the great foolishnesses–is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people...

Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. “A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future,” he says. “Spouses have...

For people that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze… those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don’t know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you’re with, it only means you’re in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you...

Was Du in Dir nährst, das wächst.

There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw you. They had a point. There’s a lot to learn from that generation...

Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me...

You can accomplish almost anything when you’re trying to accomplish what you care about. Wear yourself out with focused, disciplined work on a purpose that connects with who you truly are. You have a unique...

As for the boys…”vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best’ Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what.

My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I’m certified

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it’s a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness...

A bulimic person may be so disconnected from her experience that she does not even know what she needs or wants. If she does not know, needing something or someone only confirms her sense that...

BELIEVE” it! Then I was talking to my friend Kieran and he explained to me in a way that I could PERCEIVE that I was not at fault. No one else could ever do that...

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything to the will...

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we...

Wetikos can psychopathically (and thus toxically) mimic the human personality perfectly. If it serves their agenda, they can be convincing beyond belief, making themselves out to be normal, caring, politically correct human beings. They can...

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

psychological” is as fallacious as classifying light as a particle or a wave. The natural world makes no promise to align itself with preconceptions that humans find parsimonious or convenient. (167)

All literature, or most literature, is about sex.” (A. Burgess)

There is a characteristic INTJ expression which has become popularly termed “the death glare.” This facial expression is actually not a glare, but the INTJ’s neutral face.

Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.

natural” gifts. Just as you can practice lifting weights and get bigger muscles over time, you can also practice certain mental patterns that deepen and enlarge in your mind.

At times, the confident lose confidence, the patient lose their cool, the generous act selfish, and the knowledgeable second guess what they know. And guess what? We’re all human. We all make mistakes, we lose...

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

Lékařská diagnóza není obžaloba a nemoc není žádná hanba, ale neštěstí.

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the...