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The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.
A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.
we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.
The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING!
We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed
Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.
Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.
Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.
Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.
Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.
There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.
I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.
Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.
Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.
Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.