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Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!
But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.
I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.
Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.
[ Alfred Kinsey] was sexually abusing those children and had sex abusers working for him to stimulate the babies.
The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad.
People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
You possess an intuitive intelligence so powerful it can help you heal, relieve stress, and find emotional freedom
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.
Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.
If an organ gets a "dis-ease" you want to care for it like a wounded friend, not an enemy who's turned against you.
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?
Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.
No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.
When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.