Search results for “trauma”
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on How Our Minds Obscure Our Bodies
“Sometimes we use our minds not to discover facts, but to hide them.”
Becoming Wise: Krista Tippett on Love and Mastering the Art of Living
“If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means… what it looks like as a private good but also as a common good.”
Harvard Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy on Mastering the Antidote to Anxiety, Self-Consciousness, and Impostor Syndrome
“Before we even show up at the doorstep of an opportunity, we are teeming with dread and anxiety, borrowing trouble from a future that hasn’t yet unfolded.”
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on Human Dignity and the Nuanced Relationship Between Agency and Victimhood
“The victim shows us something about our own lives: we see that we too are vulnerable to misfortune, that we are not any different from the people whose fate we are watching…”
Big Magic: Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Courage and the Art of Living in a State of Uninterrupted Marvel
“Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”
Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization
“No matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough … to cover the immensity of factuality.”
Rilke’s Redemption: The Beloved Poet’s Stirring Letter to His Boyhood Teacher at the Military Academy That Almost Broke His Soul
“Life is very singularly made to surprise us (where it does not utterly appall us).”
The Confidence Game: What Con Artists Reveal About the Psychology of Trust and Why Even the Most Rational of Us Are Susceptible to Deception
“It’s the oldest story ever told. The story of belief — of the basic, irresistible, universal human need to believe in something that gives life meaning, something that reaffirms our view of ourselves, the world, and our place in it.”
The 15 Best Books of 2015
Rewarding reflections on time, love, loss, courage, creativity, and other transformations of the heart.
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