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I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.
The body does not end with our skin - it extends into time, into space, and into other people.
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.
For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.
The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.
It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.
In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.
In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.
If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition.
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game
When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.
The key to fostering connection in the face of a 'no' is always hearing 'yes' to something else.
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.