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When two opposing feelings put you in a dilemma, your best recourse is to express both feelings and the dilemma.
There was a basic division of the ways of men: those who wish for peace of soul and happiness must believe and embrace faith, while those who wish to pursue the truth must forsake peace of mind and de...
Recognizing that she lives in a universe absolutely indifferent to whether she is happy or unhappy.
Keep in mind that therapy is a deep and comprehensive exploration into the course and meaning of one’s life; given the centrality of death in our existence, given that life and death are interdependen...
A flood of compassion for her and for all his fellow humans who are victims of that freakish twist of evolution that grants self-awareness but not the requisite psychological equipment to deal with th...
[E]xplanation and clarification function as effective therapeutic agents in their own right. Human beings have always abhorred uncertainty and through the ages have sought to order the universe by pro...
You say that imperishable happiness lies elsewhere. Tell me about this ‘elsewhere.’ I only know that it does not lie in perishable objects. It lies not outside but within. It is the mind that determin...
When we wake discouraged in the middle of the night, enemies that we had defeated long ago come back to haunt us.
Ubijeđen sam da su, u tim zanosima prvih susreta, Dan i žena pogrešno tumačili ono što u vidjeli jedno u drugom. Svako od njih je vidjeo odraz sopstvenog preklinjanja, ranjen pogled i pogrešno ga prot...
To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
Thought, in and of itself, has no external consequences-although it may be an indispensable overture to action: one may, for example, plan, rehearse, or muster the resolve for action. Action extends o...
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us. Just as you were about to step on it, I as...
There is no human deed or thought that lies fully outside the experience of other people.
The thoughts haunted him. He hated them: they robbed him of his peace; they were alien, neither possible nor desirable. Still, he welcomed them: the only alternative- banishing Bertha from his mind-se...
The second, alternatives exclude, is an important key to understanding why decision is difficult. Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating...
The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else,
The most common secret is a deep conviction of basic inadequacy - a feeling that one is basically incompetent, that one bluffs one's way through life. Next in frequency is a deep sense of interpersona...
The human being either asserts autonomy by heroic self-assertion or seeks safety through fusing with a superior force: that is, one either emerges or merges, separates or embeds. One becomes one’s own...