#psycho

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

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#logic #metaphysics #ontology #philosophy #psychology

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#dreams

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves? ↗

— John Waters

#psychology #humor

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#nuclear #psychosis #tv #imagination

I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a piece of bread in your mouth and suck on it you'll go to heaven. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#psychoanalysis #imagination

If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you're with, it only means you're in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you for the true gift you are. ↗

— LK Hunsaker

#psychology #relationships #self-esteem #inspirational

We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspiration #inspirational #peace #psychology #spirituality

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try. ↗

— Jen Knox

#jen-knox #philosphy #psychology #intelligence

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny. ↗

— David Richo

#david-richo #psychology-spirituality #synchronicity #life