Reads tagged with “psychology”

How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being
“There is only one world. Things outside only exist if you go to meet them with everything you carry in yourself. As to the things inside, you will never see them well unless you allow those outside to enter in.”

The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love

How to Say Goodbye: An Illustrated Field Guide to Accompanying a Loved One at the End of Life
“If you don’t know what to say, start by saying that… That opens things up.”

How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education
“While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.”

Reason and Emotion: Scottish Philosopher John Macmurray on the Key to Wholeness and the Fundaments of a Fulfilling Life
“The emotional life is not simply a part or an aspect of human life. It is not, as we so often think, subordinate, or subsidiary to the mind. It is the core and essence of human life. The intellect arises out of it, is rooted in it, draws its nourishment and sustenance from it.”

The Moon and the Yew Tree: Patti Smith Reads Sylvia Plath’s Haunting Portrait of Depression
“This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.”

Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier
“The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.”

Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong
“You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power… Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace.”

How People Change: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Essence of Freedom and the Two Elements of Self-Transcendence
“We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.”

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