Reads tagged with “psychology”

David DeSteno on the Psychology of Compassion and Resilience

How to use the intricate balance of altruism and self-interest to our collective advantage.

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A Poetic Antidote to City Life

“You exist by your smile and your presence… Quests, pursuits of concrete securities of one kind or another lose all their importance.”

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Freud on Creative Writing and Daydreaming

“The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.”

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The Science of Lucid Dreaming and How to Learn to Control Your Dreams, Animated

Trekking the continuum of sleep and wakefulness in a journey into metaconsciousness.

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What Would You Do If Money Were No Object? Alan Watts on the Life of Purpose

One key question for breaking free of consumer culture’s hamster wheel.

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One-Minute Animated Primers on Major Theories of Religion

From Karl Marx to Richard Dawkins in 60 seconds.

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How the Invention of Walls Gave Rise to Eavesdropping

A brief history of personal opacity and public space.

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Do Not Despise Your Inner World: Advice on a Full Life from Philosopher Martha Nussbaum

“Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt’s Controversial Love Letters to Lorena Hickok

“You have grown so much to be a part of my life that it is empty without you.”

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A Private History of Happiness: The Art of Living with Presence, from Ptolemy to George Eliot to William Blake

“I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.”

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Reads tagged with “psychology”

How to use the intricate balance of altruism and self-interest to our collective advantage.

“You exist by your smile and your presence… Quests, pursuits of concrete securities of one kind or another lose all their importance.”

“The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.”

Trekking the continuum of sleep and wakefulness in a journey into metaconsciousness.

One key question for breaking free of consumer culture’s hamster wheel.

From Karl Marx to Richard Dawkins in 60 seconds.

A brief history of personal opacity and public space.

“Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.”

“You have grown so much to be a part of my life that it is empty without you.”

“I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.”

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