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The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.
There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.
For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.
Society's epitome of credibility is John Wayne, who sizes up a situation and says, "Here's what I'm going to do" - and you follow him.
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.
The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.
Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.
Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.
While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.
Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.
One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.
Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.
When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.
Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.
Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.
I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.
It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.