The Earth and the Underworld seen as a descent but also as a process of transformation not only corresponds to the experience of many individuals in the process of individuation, but it can also be...

Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just as their lives are never static, they are rarely if ever...

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level...

If we can predict, then we have observed enough to know that what we are observing does not just happen randomly; we have noted a pattern of regularities.

There is no such thing as isolated stress. Stress is always system wide.

More than ninety-five percent of your brain activity, as you consciously read this sentence, is being used by your subconscious mind.

Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these things, but the exhilaration of standing apart from them and being able to...

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Where the world comes in my way – and it comes in my way everywhere – I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but – my food,...

I have heard that we are spirits having a human experience. Perhaps those of us who have no conscience are dark spirits having a human experience.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

What is the black shadow? It’s the running inner dialogue we have with ourselves all day long about our fears of being inferior as black people. It is our internalization of the white man’s lie...

Your time, energy and resources will get used no matter how well you focus them. By choosing to focus properly, you get the highest return for the efforts you invest in your life. Most people...

My father’s haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by...

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don’t think it’s the children who need to be adjusted.

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of them—they all pitched their arguments against the power of the psychiatric establishment. They argued that the psychiatric...

Spontaneity in the therapeutic work arises when the therapist can allow creative and authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from the inner being, from the meditative quality within, from the inner emptiness, from...

you can’t read Human mind by #Psychology… you can read their mind by talking with them at night..

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

A man who doubts himself shouldn’t have to try too hard for too long, not until he’s seasoned.

It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious...

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

The ego isn’t a bad thing. If we didn’t develop a strong ego, a strong sense of self, we wouldn’t be able to relate to and engage with the extremely powerful and archetypal forces (both...

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren’t just what we’re taught. It’s what we experience during those...

the pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will...

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way,...

Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta’s office. That’s what they do when Alice is under stress. They see a gap in the space-time continuum and...

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code — a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in...

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

I see Sarah framed in the light of her doorway and it is like looking at a painting that emanate a mixture of wishes and truths about someone I loved – from a time I...

Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead?…It would be the ultimate breach of privacy.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Suma unui milion de zerouri nu face nici măcar unu.

In our view, current financial market psychology is under-estimating the negative impact that rising joblessness will have on the housing and motor vehicle markets in the first half of 2002,

For the most part, what we think of as ‘I’ is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.

The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn’t surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high opinion of oneself – the burden of self-importance. The narcissist reconstructs...

Speaker says psychology has commandeered “everything hard” and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Although social and personal circumstances will play their part in contributing to how an individual suffers, in Buddhist thought blame is seen as a “poison” that will only lead to negative actions and will do...

Life. Life is a show. It’s up to you how to make your own story, do your own show and how to live your show you are on. You choose who you need to meet,...

The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet “for sale”, who can still suffer over...

İdeoloji, doğası gereği etkin düşünceye de, etkin duyguya da çekici gelmez. İnsanı ya heyecanlandıran ya da uyutan hap gibidir. Hitler, Mein Kampfda (Kavgam’da) halkı toplayıp galeyana getirmek için en elverişli zamanın, insanların yorgun ve etkilenmeye...

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or...