#psych

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. ↗

— Tara Brach

#compassion #self-compassion #spiritual #freedom

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#entertainment #funny #hollywood #humor #insanity

This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us. ↗

— Jim Benton

#funny #maniac #psycho #running #vampire

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#companion #companionship #different #extroversion #fear

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. ↗

— Mo Willems

#humor #humorous #philosophy #psychology #humor

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others. ↗

— June Ahern

#psychology #spirituality #truth #life

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#desire #psychology #relationships #sexuality #spirituality

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars. ↗

— James Hillman

#jung #psychology #life

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#emotion #meaning #memory #neuropsychology #life