Psychology

Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Spirit calls our current era the Quickening. Never before has civilization changed at such a fast pace. Technology has revolutionized virtually everything about our lives. We live in a period of breathtaking wonder and opportunity. It’s also an era of danger.  
It is not hormones and neurotransmitters that control our bodies and our minds; our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives.
I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial 'victim' to my new position as 'co-creator' of my destiny
We need to move beyond Darwinian Theory, which stresses the importance of individuals, to one that stresses the importance of the community. British scientist Timothy Lenton provides evidence that evolution is more dependent on the interaction among species than it is on the interaction of individuals within a species. Evolution becomes a matter [continue reading...]
Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.