Reads tagged with “books”
The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
“We are never simply seeing what’s ‘really there,’ stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions.”
Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions
“This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it.”
A Taste of How It Feels to Be Free: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on Our Inner Conflicts, the Psychology of Hopelessness, and the Path to Wholeness
“The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs. It can be approximated only to the extent that conflicts are resolved.”
The Delicate Art of Connection: William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships
“Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer.”
Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality
How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border.”
Between Matter and Spirit: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are
“We are carriers of spirit… into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation.”
The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence
How to grow “absorbed into the being or existence of the universe.”
The Poetry of Reality: Robert Louis Stevenson on What Makes Life Worth Living
“The true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing.”
Some Thoughts about the Ocean and the Universe
How to bear the gravity of being.
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