Reads tagged with “psychology”
The Radical Act of Letting Things Hurt: How (Not) to Help a Friend in Sorrow
Why our instinctive efforts to salve another’s sadness tend to only deepen their helpless anguish and broaden the abyss between us and them — and what to do instead.
Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression
Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.”
Alain de Botton on Emotional Generosity and the Difficult, Largehearted Art of Charity of Interpretation
How to master a singular flavor of kindness we rarely afford others but always demand for ourselves.
Octavia Butler on Creativity, the Generative Power of Our Obsessions, and How We Become Who We Are
“Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful positive obsession blunts pain, diverts rage, and engages each of us in the greatest, the most intense of our chosen struggles.”
Bruce Lee on Death and What It Takes to Be an Artist of Life
“The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible. It is living void because all forms come out of it, and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.”
The Biggest Bluff: Control, Chance, and How the Psychology of Poker Illuminates the Art of Thriving Through Uncertainty
“That’s the thing about life: You can do what you do but in the end, some things remain stubbornly outside your control.”
The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche on Love, Perseverance, and the True Mark of Greatness
“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
The Shadow Elephant: A Tender Illustrated Fable About What It Takes to Unblue Our Sorrows and Lighten the Load of Our Heaviest Emotions
In praise of that quiet, nonjudgmental place of permission where all healing begins.
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