“Freedom is a feeling, and the brave heart gets it ، Independence is a thought, and an enlightened mind can obtain it .”
“When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy?”
Source: You
“You cannot move freely in a full room; a full mind has the same problem! In order to expand your range of motion and feel free, you need to put a lot of things out of your mind!”
“THE KAA
The mysteries of the mind and its illusions are not always apparent enough to be recognized and described.”
Source: AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools
“Low self-esteem, a negative view of the world, and pessimistic expectations about the future constitute the -cognitive triad- of vulnerability to depression.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Your mind is a hole that can be endlessly expanded into an abyss. The depth of your potential nothingness is truly astounding.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“It is hard to overstate the biological significance of obsessions, compulsions and the psychological mechanisms that produce them. On the one hand, compulsions bear striking similarities to various repetitive, ritualized behaviors observed in other animals --including self-grooming, food inspection and washing, and checking for predators. On the other hand, cultural rituals --which also share several features with OCD symptoms-- perform a range of important functions in human societies, from group coordination in social and religious ceremonies to the transmission of knowledge between generations.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Beliefs about overimportance of thoughts and thought control are more frequent in highly religious people and mediate the observed association between religiosity and OCD. Thought-action fusion overlaps with magical thinking and is associated with religiosity, paranormal beliefs, and positive schizotypy. most likely, thought-action fusion plays a significant role in the etiology of autogenous obsessions.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Haiku
Critical thinking
is a necessary tool
to survive today.”
“It's funny how, sometimes, the mind won't let the body remember what's been done to it. It chooses, at will, to take the abusive memory and bury it. As if to nurture away the pain by making us forget it's there. Not remembering trauma doesn't mean we're left without its effect. It still comes up and out, at a certain smell, sound, sight, touch, question, tone, location, person, people, personality. Waiting to be noticed and brought to the light. Letting it, and peeking into where it's from, is the path to making sense of ourselves and finding the particular healing we've been kept from having.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been