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Thich Nhat Hahn on anger....

"When we get angry, we suffer. If you really understand that, you also will be able to understand that when the other person is angry, it means that she is suffering. When someone insults you or behaves violently towards you, you have to be intelligent enough to see that the person suffers from his own violence and anger. But we tend to forget. We think that we are the only one that suffers, and the other person is our oppressor. This is enough to make anger arise, and to strengthen our desire to punish. We want to punish the other person because we suffer. Then, we have anger in us; we have violence in us, just as they do. When we see that our suffering and anger are no different from their suffering and anger, we will behave more compassionately. So understanding the other is understanding yourself, and understanding yourself is understanding the other person. Everything must begin with you."

10 Skills That Are Hard To Learn But Will Pay Off Forever Here are some skills that are hard to learn but will pay off forever. Human psychology is fascinating! We all know that we should be prepared for anything li...

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How to become a lucid dreamer Ever wished you could soar above your city? Lucid dreamers are able to control their time in the land of nod, and you could be able to, too.

..."Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to pe*****te the mystery of their origin." -Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)

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We're capable of infinite memory, but where in the brain is it stored, and what parts help retrieve it? Our memories provide us with insight into events, knowledge of the world around us and influence our actions and behaviours – forming important aspects of our personality.

...“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with, and second; however blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay." -Michio Kaku

...“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.” -Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

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Dr. James Wood, Marriage & Family Therapist, Santa Monica, CA, 90404 | Psychology Today Dr. James Wood, Marriage & Family Therapist, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, (424) 236-6209, I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist providing psychotherapy for adults, adolescents and children in Los Angeles, California. I am a former Marine Vietnam Combat Veteran and have studied psychology for ove...

Id, Ego, Superego, Unconscious, Defense Mechanisms, Psychoanalysis, Narcissism, 'King Baby', Repression, Regression, Oedipal Complex, Object Relations, Instinct/Drive Theory...etc.

A**l, neurotic, defensive, hysterical: We reference Freud everyday — often without even realizing it Every time you use one of these terms, you're giving the smallest of nods to the father of psychoanalysis

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” -Plato

...“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.” -Charles Baudelaire

“The greatest battle is not physical, but psychological. The demons telling us to give up when we push ourselves to the limit can never be silenced for good. They must always answered by the quiet the steady dignity that simply refuses to give in. Courage. We all suffer. Keep going.” -Graeme Fife

...“To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.” -Arthur Schopenhauer

“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.” -Deepak Chopra

...“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? -Swami Satchidananda

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.” -Stephen King

...“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.” -Rita Mae Brown

“Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed ‘mental disorder’ have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.” -Aberjhani

..."Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...” -Søren Kierkegaard

..."Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

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When Emotion Overtakes You - Ram Dass Ram Dass:   The question was, are there spiritual techniques when you are overcome by emotion?  Well, I’ll tell you, as your practice gets more and more powerful, what happens is you see the stuff as it starts before it gets so overloaded and so invested with adrenaline and all of that.  You don’t l...

...“Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.” -Idries Shah

...“Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people.” -Megan Hart

...“What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.” -Viktor Frankl