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A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.
If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others
People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.
We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.
The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.
When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.
Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.
When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.
The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.
I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.
It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.
Most of us do not 'sculpt' our lives. We accept what comes our way, then we gripe about it.
Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.
As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.