Psychology Quotes - Page 14

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another’s circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

Century after century, the belief that an individual’s physical health was independent of his or her emotional health has so dominated medical thought that there has even been open contempt for anyone who would dare to claim that a person’s physical well-being is the sum of its internal and external influences.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

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As he spoke, I had the mental image of a small boy switching on the nightlight, not because he wants to be able to find his parents during the night, but because he fears his parents will forget him - lose him - in the dark.

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.
You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go in meditation, the more you realize that you are nobody, a nothingness. It is a death of the ego. That is why people become afraid of meditation.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

...it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.

The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.

Solutions to mankind’s problems are easy and obvious. They remain unsolved because those who could solve them – don’t want to.

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened female
as both auspicious and dangerous.

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.