#psychology

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #love #psychology #art

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#psychology #life

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

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on? ↗

— Erich Fromm

#psychoanalysis #psychology #the-art-of-loving #art

În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație. ↗

— Jean-Claude Carrière

#philosophy #psychology #inspirational

Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression. ↗

— Georg Groddeck

#intelligence

Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #ego #love #meditation #presence