psychology

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.

Relationships are steppingstones for the evolution of our consciousness. Each interaction we have, be it one of joy or contrast, allows us to learn more about who we are and what we want in this lifetime. They bring us into greater alignment_as long as we continue to move forward and do not get attached to hurt, anger, or being a victim.

Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk outside without your armor on. You are able to show up in life as just you. That is genuine strength and courage. Armor may look tough, but all it does is mask insecurity and fear.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit

The most talented people are always the nicest.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

The archetypal image of the redeemer serpent is certainly placed here in opposition to the serpents of evil that battle with it. But why do they both have the same form if there is only oppositIOn between them? What does it mean that they both dwell in the same place, the depth of the great abyss? Are they not possibly two aspects of the same thing?We know this image of the redeemer serpent not only from Gnosis and from the Sabbataian myth, but we know of the same serpent rising from below, redeeming and to be redeemed, as the Kundalini serpent in India, and finally from alchemy as the serpens Mercurii, the ambiguous serpent whose significance was first made clear to us by Jung's researches.Since Jung's work on alchemy we know two things. The first is that in its "magnum opus" alchemy dealt with a redemption of matter itself. The second is that pari passu with this redemption of matter, a redemption of the individual psyche was not only unconsciously carried out but was also consciously intended. As we know, the serpent is a primeval symbol of the Spirit, as primeval and ambiguous as the Spirit itself. The emergence of the Earth archetype of the Great Mother brings with it the emergence of her companion, the Great Serpent. And, strangely enough, it seems as though modern man is confronted with a curious task, a task which is essentially connected with what mankind, rightly or wrongly, has feared most, namely the Devil.

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.

The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does. All the time we are aware of millions of things around us - these changing shapes, these burning hills, the sound of the engine, the feel of the throttle, each rock and weed and fence post and piece of debris beside the road - aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see. We could not possibly be conscious of these things and remember all of them because our mind would be so full of useless details we would be unable to think. From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and calls consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it. We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world." -Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance