Psychology Quotes - Page 8

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

I am small.

So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

In this quiet place on a quiet street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
-from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

We are gods with anuses.

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.

I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Saying of the Prophet
Understanding
Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Saying of the Prophet
Anger
You ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.