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Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.
If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.
The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.
Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.
You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.
'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.
The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.
Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.
The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.
Asking others for input puts you in the driver's seat, and may feel less awkward than having to watch yourself on video.
I have always tried to be clear that my states are stages of justice reasoning, not of emotions, aspirations, or action.
People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.
We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.
Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.
Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.
When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.
As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.
It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.
Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.