Reads tagged with “psychology”
Bridging the Island Universes of Our Experience: Aldous Huxley on Making Sense of Ourselves and Each Other
“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.”
Mary’s Room: An Animated Inquiry into the Limits of Knowledge and the Mystery of Consciousness
The gasp beyond fact, contouring the central question of what it is like to be you.
Consciousness and the Nature of the Universe: How Panpsychism and Its Fault Lines Shade in the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
“We’ve barely begun to understand our place in the cosmos. As we continue to look out from our planet and contemplate the nature of reality, we should remember that there is a mystery right here where we stand.”
José Ortega y Gasset on the True Meaning and Measure of Intelligence
“Intelligence asserts itself above all not in art, nor in science, but in intuition of life.”
The Antidote to the Irreversibility of Life: Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means
“Forgiving… is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly, unconditioned by the act which provoked it and therefore freeing from its consequences both the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.”
Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to Our Existential Anxiety
“A life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
Music and the Mystery of Aliveness
“We are a music-making species — always have been, always will be — and music’s capacity to explore, express and address what it is to be human remains one of our greatest communal gifts.”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Mystery to Ourselves: Milan Kundera on Writing and the Key to Great Storytelling
A torch for traversing “the territory where no one possesses the truth… but where everyone has the right to be understood.”
Can People Change? The Psychological Möbius Strip That Keeps Us from Ending Painful Relationships
Facing the logical fallacies that fuel painful emotional patterns and what it takes to break them with dignity, mindfulness, and emotional maturity.
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