Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

It’s not a secret that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Id me didn’t have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if ‘id’ and ‘idiot’ came from the same root.

There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words...

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, “Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is not about what you want. What you want is not important....

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

Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we’ll be ceaselessly happy and...

This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.… fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.”―Distancing, Kantor (p.115)

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal public asylum in London, it had accepted dangerous and insane paupers...

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new...

Maslow’s five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth...

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

It takes two to tango” isn’t even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on his or her own. But the Theory of Mutual Blame arose sometime before...

The only part of you that hurts when you’re given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

I understand the mechanism of my own thinking. I know precisely how I know, and my understanding is recursive. I understand the infinite regress of this self-knowing, not by proceeding step by step endlessly, but...

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions...

It’s not that there is no small talk…It’s that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end…Sensitive people…’enjoy small talk only after they’ve gone deep’ says Strickland. ‘When sensitive people are...

We use concepts like “consciousness”—“mind”—“personality,” but we don’t really know yet what these things are.’ He was shaking his head. ‘Not really. Not at all.

Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells…

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

What would it be like to think what a gerbil thinks, from a gerbil’s point of view? Kind of like Thomas Nigel’s 1974 paper, ‘What Is It Like to Be a Bat?’ There’s a subjective...

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”Aristotle

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trendis statism. Philosophically, the goal is theobliteration of reason;psychologically, it is theerosion of ambition.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there...

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

Seven Rules Formulated for Teaching Arithmetic:1) Consider the situation the pupils faces.2) Consider the response you wish to connect with.3) Form the bond; do not expect it to come by miracle.4) Other things being equal,...

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows.

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably...

Davranışı yönlendiren itici güçleri bilirsek, yalnızca şimdiki zamanda gerçekleştirilen davranışı anlamakla kalmayız, bir kişinin değiştirilmiş koşullar altında nasıl davranabileceği konusunda da akla uygun varsayımlarda bulunabiliriz.

The archetypal image of the redeemer serpent is certainly placed here in opposition to the serpents of evil that battle with it. But why do they both have the same form if there is only...

I want to open a broken marriage repair shop. I’m not a counselor or psychologist, but I am a fan of the magical bonding that occurs between two people when duct tape binds them together...

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period...