Quotes of: Psychology Keyword

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

Toward a Psychology of Being

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

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

Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.

Sophie Hannah

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first ...

Billy Zane

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

Edward Sapir

What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'

Christopher Denham

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

John Desmond Bernal

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and , a corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

General Psychological Theory

Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product.

How to Be Creative: Six Psychological Principles of Creativity

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals, 1934-1939

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Other than damnation I know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value.

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

The Revolution of the Dialectic: A Practical Guide to Gnostic Psychology and Meditation

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Sexuality and the Psychology of Love

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

Men Who Rape: The Psychology Of The Offender

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way