#psychology

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. ↗

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#motivation #psychology #self-actualization #motivational

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

‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#life-s-purpose #psychology #life

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#psychology #education

Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#insight #love #mindfulness #psychology #art

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #meditation #psychology #art

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters. ↗