The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds.

How could you do that? You should know.” Again, we make the assumption that the other person knows what we want. A whole drama is created because we make this assumption and then put more...

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity … Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved...

There’s nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

Through others we become ourselves.

…the only way out consists of using a social mask.This is why those under depression will smile more as well as make efforts to please and entertain compared to anyone else….If they could hide in...

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

It was Matthews, of course, for whom the verdict was the greatest disaster. Not only had he failed to escape from Bedlam, but the anomalies of the case made it highly unlikely that he would...

At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.

But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin to thrive in this exciting age of our humanity’s journey toward a greater...

The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself...

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Sanity is not about confrontation. It’s about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying “no” to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make...

We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.

Our Universe is a multidimensional one; every individual life unit consciously functions in a particular vibratory level (dimension or density) but unconsciously/ subconsciously functions in and through all the other levels, and as the awareness...

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

To take good care of ourselves, we must go back and take care of the wounded child inside of us. You have to practice going back to your wounded child every day. You have to...

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off...

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It’s not logical: it’s psychological. And it’s very real.

In order for our minds to comprehend something, there must be an appropriately structured neural structure called a ‘frame’ that makes it possible to contextualize, make proper sense of, and mentally ‘see’ the thing. Our...

Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

Gradually it became clear that it is a fundamental error to try to give the sexual act a psychological interpretation, to attribute to it a psychic meaning as if it were a neurotic symptom. But...

Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they live in a state of psychological distortion. It is his own self that each of them...

According to Hugh Thomas, author of ‘A History of the World’, the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The greatest psychological advance in history is just around the corner and will also...

As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Maybe I made it up.”p55

So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.

man equate their self-esteem with accomplishment

Whether we are speaking of a flower or an oak tree, of an earthworm or a beautiful bird, of an ape or a person, we will do well, I believe, to recognize that life is...

Projections’ – attempts to blame all and sundry for my own past folly – will be found of no avail, and we must learn to withdraw them. None other is to blame for our body,...

People think you have only to ‘tell’ a person that he ‘ought’ to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

As it almost always was when I’d been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

None should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

While your ego is always trying to figure out its place in the world, your true self knows that your place is always right here, right now.

Persistent problems, however unpleasant they may seem, contain the unprocessed and unexamined thoughts and feelings that, if left alone, keep you from your greatness. That’s why the pain, emptiness, and longing you feel can be...

As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to...

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When...

İnsanoğlu onu uyaran, harekete geçiren herşeyden ve zevklerden yoksun bırakılırsa, iş yapma yetisinden, hele ustalık isteyen herhangi bir işi yapma yetisinden yoksun kalır. Eğer son noktaya kadar yoksun bırakılmamışsa, onu köle yapmaya kalktığınızda isyan etme...

Devaluation of the Earth, hostility towards the Earth, fear of the Earth: these are all from the psychological point of view the expression of a weak patriarchal consciousness that knows no other way to help...

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

Too much possibility is the attempt by the person to overvalue the powers of the symbolic self. It reflects the attempt to exaggerate one half of the human dualism at the expense of the other....

It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.