Quotes of: Norman Keyword

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

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

In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The one big fact is that science traffics in ignorance, cultivates it, and is driven by it.

Ignorance: How it drives science

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

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

Si piensas, entenderás que la culpa, los errores, las decepciones y las desgracias son privilegios de una vida consciente. ¡La muerte no tiene esos privilegios!

O Vendedor De Sonhos - O Chamado

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

In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.

Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Volume 1

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

All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

The Principles of Psychology

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