Mundo del pensamiento positivo, los demás no están ahí para que los cuidemos, ni para darnos baños de realidad que no les hemos pedido. Solo tienen sentido si nos animan, nos aplauden y nos reafirman....
Way before puberty, before the journal, before the formulation of my life’s mission, when I must have been eight or younger, I had a rule: Think in complete sentences. No giving way to inner screams o...
Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.
To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological sciences, there is ample evidence that animals — rats and monkeys, for example — tha...
The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of a nonhuman agent or agents, some mysterious Other, intervening in my life, c...
The historian Michael Walzer has argued that modern revolution was a task for the kind of ascetic, single-minded, self-denying personality that Calvinism sought to inculcate, and certainly some of the...
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
The advice that you must change your environment—for example, by eliminating negative people and news—is an admission that there may in fact be a real world out there that is utterly unaffected by our...
Sometimes Carlie hands me the squirt bottle of Bam (an acronym for something that begins, ominously, with butyric - the rest of it has been worn off the label) and lets me do the bathrooms. No service...
Six witnesses affirmed that Jacoba had cured them, even after numerous doctors had given up, and one patient declared that she was wiser in the art of surgery and medicine than any master physician or...
Si te basta con una foto chula y una frasecita para motivarte, es que tienes un trabajo muy fácil… uno de esos que dentro de poco harán los robots.
Science works, of course, but from an aesthetic point of view, was it really a great improvement over mythology? Why do we insist that theories work, when they might just as well sit around and look p...
Our space was a home because we loved each other in it.
Mires a donde mires, te encuentras con la jerga empresarial: incentivos, valor añadido, pasos adelante; las mismas cadenas de mando, las mismas oficinas con iguales mesas y cubículos, la misma funcion...
Lo que de verdad tiene el pensamiento positivo de ideología conservadora es su apego al sistema, con todas sus desigualdades y sus abusos de poder.
It was doubtless true, she later wrote that I was ‘Weary of myself and sick of asking What I am and what I ought to be.
I was an answer-seeking machine, in love with what I called the truth, whether it came in the form of little truth particles stuck to the pages of books or vast patterns screaming out from the obvious...
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering fr...
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what...
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?