#psych

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#basically #conversion #decided #enroll #experience

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. ↗

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#ego #psychology #tibet #wisdom #death

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#consciousness #descriptive #ideal #large #only

Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. ↗

— Arnold Beisser

#peace #psychology #change

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite... ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #courtney-love #family-relationships #gay #jealousy

All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor

And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#psychosis #imagination

I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#away #cannot #four #going #i

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#among #change #climate #help #leaders

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have. ↗

— Harvey Penick

#kept #more #more people #people #probably