Reads tagged with “psychology”
The Mountain View of the Mind: Simone Weil on the Purest and Most Fertile Form of Thought
“Our thought should be empty, waiting, not seeking anything, but ready to receive in its naked truth the object that is to penetrate it.”
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?”
John O’Donohue on Beauty, Why We Fall in Love, and How the Life-Force of Desire Vitalizes Us
“We can slip into the Beautiful with the same ease as we slip into the seamless embrace of water; something ancient within us already trusts that this embrace will hold us.”
I Work Like a Gardener: Joan Miró on Art, Motionless Movement, and the Proper Pace of Creative Labor
“Art can die; what matters is that it should have sown seeds on the earth… It must give birth to a world.”
John Cage on Human Nature, Constructive Anarchy, and How Silence Helps Us Amplify Each Other’s Goodness
“It is essential that we be convinced of the goodness of human nature, and we must act as though people are good.”
Barbara Walters on How to Be There for the Newly Bereaved and Heartbroken
“Things being what they are in the world today, we are more and more driven to depend on one another’s sympathy and friendship in order to survive emotionally.”
Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception
“That point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all.”
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”
Thoreau on How Silence Ennobles Speech and the Ideal Space for Conversation
“There are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.”
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