Reads tagged with “psychology”
Eric Berne on the True Meaning of Intimacy, the Greatest Obstacle to It, and How to Transcend It
“A star is the glowing light inside the other person, distantly seen, brave soul’s tiny flame, too bright to approach without great courage and integrity.”
Nick Cave on Songwriting, Truth, and the Mystery of the Unconscious
“Metaphor can create a merciful sense of distance from the cruel idea, or the unspeakable truth, and allow it to exist within us as a kind of poetic radiance, as a work of art.”
Control for Surrender: Henry Miller’s Stunning Letter to Anaïs Nin About the Value of and the Antidote to Despair
“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance.”
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
“If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration.”
Games People Play: The Revolutionary 1964 Model of Human Relationships That Changed How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other
“Because there is so little opportunity for intimacy in daily life, and because some forms of intimacy (especially if intense) are psychologically impossible for most people, the bulk of the time in serious social life is taken up with playing games.”
The Milky Way, the Pond, and the Meaning of Life: Thoreau on Solitude, Sympathy, and the Salve for Melancholy
“There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.”
Sappho and the Fevered Heart: Anne Carson on Jealousy
“…greener than grass I am and dead — or almost I seem to me.”
To the Young Who Want to Die: Roxane Gay Reads Gwendolyn Brooks’s Lifeline of a Poem
“The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait.”
What We Keep in Loss: William Blake’s Stirring Letter to a Bereaved Father
“Our deceased friends are more really with us than when they were apparent to our mortal part.”
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