#psych

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#evil #psychoanalysis #religion #religion

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it. ↗

— Kim Chestney

#heaven #intuition #kim-chestney #psychic-workshop #samadhi

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. ↗

— William James

#mental-illness

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#hope #mental-health #mental-illness #philosophy #psychology

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #religion

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexuality #subconscious #yoga

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#balk #book #certainly #children #easier

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#cerebral #intestine #mind #minds #occupied

We are all capable of becoming something monstrous. ↗

— Cyraus Foldger

#philosophy-of-life-people #psychology #life