“Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...”
“There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“Our actions speak for us & they speak loudly.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.”
Source: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
“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.)”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.”
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.”
Source: A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud & Sabina Spielrein
“Normal' ist zunächst, was zwei Leute dafür halten.”
Source: Jenseits der Norm - hochbegabt und hoch sensibel?
“We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.”
Source: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness