Psychology Quotes

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

People think you have only to ‘tell’ a person that he ‘ought’ to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001)

None should say: ‘I can trust, ’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows.

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.

We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.

I have heard that we are spirits having a human experience. Perhaps those of us who have no conscience are dark spirits having a human experience.

There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of. - Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath

We may not be able to control life’s circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them.

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

It is awesome to note that the works your work are working but that should not be a joy. The ultimate joy should be that the works of your work are indelible.

While your ego is always trying to figure out its place in the world, your true self knows that your place is always right here, right now.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book "Why We Love Serial Killers" @readingghost

A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.

The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds.

Certainly, it's important to acknowledge and identify the effects of BPD on your life. It's equally important to realize that it neither dictates who you are nor fixes your destiny.

Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others.

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing

The loss of my child broke my spirit.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

If the mind fits, shrink it.

At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.

Know Thyself

Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead?...It would be the ultimate breach of privacy.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Anyone who has physically incarnated on the Earth is energetically connected to the people they love, and to the Earth, indefinitely...

It is crucial for us to understand the origins of our low self-esteem before we can transcend it.

The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

Solutions to mankind’s problems are easy and obvious. They remain unsolved because those who could solve them – don’t want to.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

It is time to climb the mountains of our mind

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.