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“Although psychoanalysts, including Freud, tended to acknowledge sexual trauma as tragic and harmful (Freud, 1905b, 1917), the subject seems to have been too awful to consider seriously in civilized...”
“When you're anxious, don't immediately trust your automatic thoughts because oftentimes these thoughts are irrational. Thoughts are not facts. They're just thoughts and sometimes don't need to be g...”
“If you are stuck in circumstances in which it takes Herculean efforts to get through the day doing low-income work, obeying an authoritarian boss, buying clothes for the children, dealing with scho...”
“A writer sets up his own amazing experiment: his work of fiction.”
“You are already the awakeness that you seek!”
“Rest as the awareness that is aware without using thought.”
“We can learn to return home to our open hearts at any moment.”
“The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.”
“To show how memory changes to fit our story, psychologists study how memories evolve over time: if your memories of the same people change, becoming positive or negative spending on what is happeni...”
“The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and restore us to a state of greater purity.”
“This life is a journey and it is one that can be snatched right out of our hands. Therefore it is wise to know where you are going when you leave this life behind.”
“Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting in the truth, resting in the confidence that God is your provision.”
“Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ...”
“... [O]ne of the most influential approaches to thinking about memory in recent years, known as connectionism, has abandoned the idea that a memory is an activated picture of a past event. Connecti...”
“Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the ...”
“God wants us to be significant”
“Life is a hologram. Even the smallest moment contains eternity within it.”
“[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.”
“Uncertainty. Vulnerability. Death. Hard truths have a secret power over us. Wed rather ignore them.”
“I maintain, then, that scientific psychology (and, it may be added, the psychology of the same kind that we all unconsciously practise when we try to "figure to ourselves" the stirrings of our own ...”
