Quotes of: Abraham-lincoln Keyword

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland - that special place which is more than a place, more than a geophysical area.

Banal Nationalism

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way. And the Way to which they should point is Jesus.

Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship and Direction

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'.

The Message of Romans: God's Good News for the World

The terrors of the future will not come from the drab repressions of an encroaching bureaucracy, but from the neon lights of a thousand supermarkets, the sounds of a million automobile accidents and from the public cremation of the dead astronauts as...

Mind In Chains

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

The Scientific Analysis of Personality

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.

The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

The Peter Principle

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Leon reads aloud from an article in the about voting to select a national flower. Leon votes for dandelions. Joseph and Clyde vote for grass.

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study

As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: "I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study