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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.
Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.
NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.
We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.
It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.
Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.
In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.
There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.
Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.
You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.
Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.
The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it
One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.
Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.
I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy
Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.