Quotes of: Psychology Keyword

I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develo...

Tara Brach

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performa...

David Fincher

Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa

How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond

As women are altering their traditional role expressions, men are developing new responses to the transformed women. Old patterns are no longer acceptable, and new sets of expectations and roles are now required of them.

Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology and Astrology of the Re-Emerging Feminine

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

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

With respect to human nature, we believe that the idea of God's image implies relationship and not any characteristic that would have left a mark in the paleoanthropological record.

Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

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

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

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

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.

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

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

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

Presence is the capacity to be present for another person with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being. It is to be present for another person as a supporting light, as a supporting presence – and simply to be present with another perso...

Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and ...

Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

Through learning to listen to our own intuition, it develops to a constantly available inner source of love, truth and wisdom. We can close our eyes, go within, and always receive the right guidance.

Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

Wishful Drinking

expressed the opinion—not quite in earnest, though, it seemed to me—that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, 'What then is science, particularly psychoanalytic p...

Love

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Caitlin Flanagan

..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, peop...

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

In the past, men had projected their feminine qualities of emotions, nurturance, and sensitivity onto women. With the recent activation of the feminine centers represented by the asteroids, men have been pressured and encouraged to both "own: and dev...

Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology and Astrology of the Re-Emerging Feminine

Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and intangible, and might best be described, I think, as a semi-fictional narrative that is in constant need ...

Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception

the automatic, fixed-action patterns of these animals work very well the great majority of the time. For example, because only healthy, normal turkey chicks make the peculiar sound of baby turkeys, it makes sense for mother turkeys to respond materna...

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion