October 2011
1 post
“If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I...”
September 2011
5 posts
“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis,...”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
– Paul Tillich
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
– Albert Einstein
August 2011
14 posts
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
– Rollo May, Love and Will (1969) p. 243
The Neuroscience of Changing Toxic Thinking... →
A very helpful overview of the interplay between our conscious and unconscious minds, and the role our own thoughts play in determining how we act and feel.
Excerpt:
Whether you understand its messages or not, your subconscious continually communicates with you through emotion-based action-signals to let you know where you are in relation to where you want to be. You’re not going to like...
“One does not become fully human painlessly.”
– Rollo May, Foreword to Existential-Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology (1978) by Ronald S. Valle and Mark King
“It is often said that overcoming depression is a matter of will power. For me,...”
– James Herndon PhD, APA, Diplomate American Board of Psychological Specialties
“The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven...”
– Portia, in The Merchant of Venice
“When we’re in denial, we have no ability to see how “off” our...”
– Debbie Ford
“The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable...”
– Deepak Chopra
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
– Flannery O’Connor
“In the drama of our evolution, the shadow is the character of greatest interest.”
“It’s ironic that to find the courage to lead an authentic life you will have to...”
– Debbie Ford
“In any situation, there are two things to ask: “What is the gift?” -...”
July 2011
27 posts
“If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”
– Thomas Hardy
The 60-day Challenge is a self-transformational exercise that involves a commitment to doing something for sixty days that will lead to lasting change, and the adoption of long-term permanent habits. Challenge accepted. Will henceforth commit to a regimen that will mark sixty days of daily corrective habits. Hopefully the naysayers will let me do this on my own unhindered, and keep their doubts to...
“Kung saan tayo nadapa ay doon din tayo babangon.”
The Willpower Paradox
Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question. By Wray Herbert | Monday, July 26, 2010 |
Willingness is a core concept of addiction recovery programs—and a paradoxical one. Twelve-step programs emphasize that addicts cannot will themselves into healthy sobriety—indeed, that ego and self-reliance are often...
“Forgiveness is having given up all hope of having had a better past.”
– Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions
“Hurt people hurt people.”
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
– John Green
“To change one’s life; start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.”
– William James
“Today I affirm that there is nothing in me but love. This love comes from total...”
– Jackson Kiddard
“what bargains we have made
we have
kept
and
as the dogs of the hours
close...”
– victory - charles bukowski
“Everyone needs a shipwreck once in a while….”
“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
– Anais Nin
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s...”
– Susan Sontag
“It’s easy to love
through a cold spring
when the poles
of the willows
turn...”
– “The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 3”; Mary Mackey
“Your mother’s dead, before long I’ll be dead, and you, and your brother, and...”
– Tywin Lannister, Game of Thrones S01E07: You Win or You Die
“Our bodies would disintegrate, our plans would be blown off course, we would be...”
– Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this...”
– jane jacobs, on urban planning, but applicable to life as well.
June 2011
19 posts
We are walking in a ticker tape parade. That’s all that’s going on. Some pieces of confetti read “great calves,” some “chronic sinus,” some “no noticeable hair loss,” some “multiple sclerosis,” and some “third finger amputation.” Don’t judge your neighbor by what pieces fall on his or her shoulders. Don’t think you...
“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors,...”
“Sometimes I get the feeling that God has pets and I’m not one of them.”
– Spiritual Notes to Myself