Reads tagged with “psychology”
The Great Zen Master Seung Sahn Soen-sa on the Four Types of Anger and Its Paradoxical Constructive Side
A Buddhist taxonomy of attached anger, reflected anger, perceived anger, and loving anger.
The Nature of Love: How Harry Harlow’s Seminal 1958 Research Shaped the Science of Affection and Changed Modern Parenting
“Love is a wondrous state, deep, tender, and rewarding… But… the little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.”
Eudora Welty on Friendship as an Evolutionary Mechanism for Language
“When we learned to speak to, and listen to, rather than to strike or be struck by, our fellow human beings, we found something worth keeping alive, worth possessing, for the rest of time.”
Virginia Woolf on How Our Illusions Keep Us Alive
“Life is a dream. ‘Tis waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
What Makes a Good Life: Revelatory Learnings from Harvard’s 75-Year Study of Human Happiness
“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.”
Baudelaire on Beauty and Strangeness
“Beauty always has an element of strangeness… simple, unintended, unconscious strangeness [which] gives it the right to be called beauty.”
Oliver Sacks on Death, Destiny, and the Redemptive Radiance of a Life Fully Lived
“It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.”
Bruce Lee’s Daughter Shares Her Father’s Philosophy of Learning
“Learning is discovering, uncovering what is there in us.”
The Birth of Global Emotion: Borges on Collective Grief and Collective Joy
“There was the emotion over what had occurred, and there was also the emotion of knowing that thousands of people, millions of people, maybe all the people in the world, were feeling great emotion over what was occurring.”
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