#psychology

In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#ego #love #meditation #presence #psychology

The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#self-acceptance #social-psychology #love

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep. ↗

— Heraclitus

#men

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#psychology #motivational

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. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#religion #religion

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#psychology #anger

But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from the shallow-side has a destructive effect. The horror which we feel for Freudian interpretations is entirely due to our own barbaric or childish naivete, which believes that there can be heights without corresponding depths, and which blinds us to the really "final" truth that, when carried to extremes, opposites meet. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#science #beauty

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#counsellor #counselor #humanity #joy #kindness

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. ↗

— Byron Katie

#psychology #change

The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur. ↗

— James Hollis

#jungian-analyst #midlife #change