One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Once we know how observant a person is in terms of church attendance, nothing that we can discover about the content of her religious faith adds anything to our understanding or prediction of her good...

In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I” – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down...

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain – not deal with reality

Don’t blame a person for the wrongdoings; Both He and You are Homo-sapiens.Don’t greet a person for the rightdoings; Try to be a Homo-sapien.

I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men...

it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they...

In retrospect, I didn’t really want to be a slut. What I wanted and needed was a therapist who would consent to fucking me, but I doubted my parents’ insurance would have covered that. I...

There are people who fantasize about suicide, and paradoxically, these fantasies can be soothing because they usually involve either fantasizing about others’ reactions to one’s suicide or imagining how death would be a relief from...

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not.

Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody’s ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I’ll show you a place where misery is permanent

Those who are aware of their condition and experience themselves as “multiple” might refer to themselves as “we” rather than “I.” I shall use the term “multiple” at times, in respect for their internal experience....

A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light...

Just because something doesn’t go as planned, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while. Sometimes you have to fall forward, by learning what doesn’t work, to discover what does. Sometimes you have to get knocked...

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit...

Už jsem řekl, že samostatnost imaga zůstává nevědomá, neboť se ztotožňuje se samostatností objektu. Smrt objektu by tedy měla vyvolat zvláštní psychologické účinky, neboť objekt pak úplně nemizí – existuje v nehmatatelné formě dál. Víme,...

My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start,So if I’m treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.(attrib: E. Tancarville)

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp...

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

Remember the proverb: ‘A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Have you ever felt love?Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn’t exist?...

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Musíme rozlišovat mezi obsahy myšlenkového procesu a logickými kategoriemi použitými myšlením. Zatímco se obsahy našeho bdělého myšlení nepodřizují omezením prostoru a času, mají kategorie logického myšlení prostorově-časovou povahu. Tak například mohu myslet na svého otce...

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Go through the proper motions each day and you’ll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!

He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.

I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is...

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships...

Clockers” asks–almost in passing, and there’s a lot more to it than this–a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals,...

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves–their convictions and their aspirations–every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to...

Načež hlas v mém nitru pronesl: Je to umění. Překvapilo mě to. Nikdy mě nenapadlo, že to, co píši, má něco společného s uměním. Pak mě ale napadlo: Mé nevědomí možná utváří osobnost, která není...

But sometimes you simply can’t make yourself feel like acting. And in those situations, motivational advice risks making things worse, by surreptitiously strengthening your belief that you need to feel motivated before you act. By...

Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential...

Suicide may be a choice, but not as much as it is expected when everything else fails.

Expectation works in mysterious ways—and totally unconsciously.

To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction of today’s and what we would now call mental disorders were often...

If I could make people feel, just for a day or an hour, what it’s like to love with infiniteness, then they would be animals no longer, but some greater creature, deserving of that title...

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet...

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you’re not paying.

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

The process of finding the right doctor for you is excruciatingly painful, sometimes causing more damage than what you started with, but the feeling of finding the right one is priceless.

It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the circumstances of our past.