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“Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta ﬂows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.”

Book:Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

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Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

This book explores the transformative power of lovingkindness meditation, offering practical techniques and insights to foster a deeper sense of well-being and happiness. more

Author

Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg is a renowned author and mindfulness meditation teacher. Born in New York in 1952, she has a deep interest in Eastern philosophy and meditation from a young age. Her works cover a wide range of topics including personal growth, spiritual cultivation, and Buddhist wisdom, which have won her a large following among readers. more

“The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is. They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world. (Note: This quote is fake and does not appear in Simulacra and Simulation. I tried to delete it, but the system doesn't allow that because this quote has "too many fans" lol.)”

Reality Happiness Fantasy Media Wants Simulation Misattributed

Book:Simulacra and Simulation

Source: Simulacra and Simulation

“Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.”

Humor Psychology Journalism Psychiatry

Book:The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking obscurely; perhaps he is claiming too much; perhaps she is speaking rather too personally. And one can, perhaps, charge Spielrein on all three counts. But, on balance, her inability to win recognition for her insight into repression was not her fault; it was Freud’s and Jung’s. Preoccupied with their own theories, and with each other, the two men simply did not pause even to take in the ideas of this junior colleague let alone to lend a helping hand in finding a more felicitous expression for her thought. More ominously still, both men privately justified their disregard by implicitly casting her once more into the role of patient, as though that role somehow precluded a person from having a voice or a vision of his or her own. It was and remains a damning comment on how psychoanalysis was evolving that so unfair a rhetorical maneuver, one so at odds with the essential genius of the new therapeutic method, came so easily to hand. In the great race between Freud and Jung to systematize psychoanalytic theory, to codify it once and for all, a simpler truth was lost sight of: Sometimes a person is not heard because she is not listened to.”

Psychology Biography

Book:A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud & Sabina Spielrein

Source: A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud & Sabina Spielrein