4,465 Quotes About Psychology

There is a psychospiritual disease of the soul that originates within ourselves and that has the potential to destroy our species or to wake us up, depending on whether or not we recognize what it is revealing to us.

When the contents of the collective unconscious become activated, they have an unsettling effect on the conscious mind of everyone. When this psychic dynamic is not consciously metabolized, not just within an individual but collectively, the mental state of the people as a whole might well be compared to a psychosis.

Instead of focusing on isolated objects and events, we can expand our fixed perspective and allow the deeper process (often taking the form of a mythic narrative of some sort) that is animating events to reveal itself. Instead of superimposing our limiting ideas and beliefs onto the waking dream, we can allow life to show its dreamlike nature to us.

I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even if it contains more than a grain of truth.

Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined.

People whose eyes shine are happy to be alive. They see life and it’s glory even when things aren’t easy.And because they see life, even through all the problems and obstacles, their eyes shine.

Siz, kendiniz olmak istiyorsunuz. Bunu bana kaç kere söylediğinizi duydum! Kaç kere özgürlüğü hiç tanımadığınızdan yakındınız. Sizin iyiliğiniz, ödeviniz, sadakatiniz; bunlar sizi hapseden duvarlar. Bu küçük erdemler sizi yok edecekler. Kendi kötülüğünüzü tanımak zorundasınız. Kısmen özgür olunamaz: İçgüdüleriniz, özgürlük özleminiz; odada kapalı tutulan vahşi köpekleriniz; hepsi de özgürleşmek için feryat ediyorlar. İyi dinleyin, hâlâ duyamıyor musunuz onları?

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.