Though the ‘Thou’ is not an ‘It’, it is also not “another ‘I'”. He who treats a person as “another ‘I'” does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such...

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

There’s always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of. – Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath

Člověk může sám sebe oklamat, že druhého miluje například i přesto, že ho potřebuje pouze pro slepý obdiv, jenž od něj získává. V takových případech však člověk pravděpodobně druhého náhle odstrčí, nebo se dokonce obrátí...

To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.

Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is...

Using time, pressure and patience, the universe gradually changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and coal into diamonds. You’re being worked on too, so hang in there. Just because something isn’t apparent right now,...

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

If you do not have enemies on your way to the top, you are already a celebrated failure.

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they’re merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically...

It’s a mind, it works by metaphor.

Tous les enfants essaient de compenser la séparation du sevrage par des conduites de séduction et de parade; on oblige le garçon à dépasser ce stade, on le délivre de son narcissisme en le fixant...

Presence is about how every action can arise from the quality, which we call awareness – the presence of our inner being, the presence of our soul. It is a large difference between working with...

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own...

She looks like the type that might freak out. It’s something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I’ll shoot yours.

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind – to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow...

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

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.

It is crucial for us to understand the origins of our low self-esteem before we can transcend it.