Category: Depth Psychology
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Attitude: The Secret 2 Genius
Words of Philosophical Wisdom The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley Attitude: The Secret Ingredient There is a secret to genius, wouldn’t you agree? Just how often do we see it in our day-to-day lives? As I look upon…
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Happiness? 1 Simple Pleasure or Hedonic Bliss?
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo da Vinci Hedonic Bliss and the Pleasure Principle of Happiness Am I the ghost in the machine, or is the machine a ghost in me? Can you remove the pleasure of happiness from the hedonic…
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Beauty Now: God’s Whisper 2 Soul
Words of Inspiration Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty and Soul: A Calling to Act Are we part of God’s grand written story? Sometimes, my mind will take me up this pathway into the unknown territory…
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A Guiding Light 2 Inner Peace
Inspiration Vlog Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman Our Guiding Light Do you have a guiding light? Does an inner voice call upon you to engage some yet-to-be-realized passion? We all have these inner yearnings, would you agree? Psychological angst seems prevalent these days. When…
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Practical Psychology: How 2 Deal with the Negative Skew of News and Social Media
A Sacred Journey Podcast Faith and Practical Psychology With so much media buying for our attention, how can we develop that desperately needed inner sense of peace? This is especially true as it relates to the negative bias most sources of information used to play upon the strengths of the autonomic nervous system that will…
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The Genius of Attitude
Inspiring Words A Philosopher’s Inquiry I am reminded here of Sigmund Freud’s idealized citation comparing the mind of adults to children. What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud As a child, I yearned to hear the repetitive nature of…
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The Price of Knowledge
Inspiration for the Soul A Philosopher’s Stone Knowledge is never free. It is paid for by the hard work of digging deep into the recesses of what is not only readily available to us but found in the work of digging itself. When we go beyond the Facebook post, the Tweet, or the newest viral…
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Engaging the Inner Will – To Live, Die, or Persevere…
Inspiration for the Soul Philosophical Food for Thought Words to base a life upon. We all have a calling. What is yours? History is written about those that stood directly in the face of status quo, and persevered despite the way the proverbial wind blew. That is why we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
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Love’s Unending Gift
Inspirational Quote Philosophical Food for Thought Love is the cornerstone emotion that encapsulates every other feeling. Whether it be those negative emotional undercurrents such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, or those more positive dynamic states such as strength, courage, happiness, or bliss, our ability to love encapsulates it all. While this age-old wisdom may sound…
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On Trust
Inspirational Quote The concept of trust seems lacking in the light of suspiciousness being peddled in a world bent on leering into the lives of others. It’s incredible how many people lack this most basic of personality dynamics. I can’t count how many times I have seen the root of psychological strife grounded in the…
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Old Sultan… The Value of Wisdom Unfolded
Words of Wisdom Food For Thought Fairy stories are a beautiful rendition of things yet to come. They offer unique perspectives on values, our developmental journey, and of course, they touch upon the dark and light-matter that the psyche encounters on its journey to find its true essence. They provide unique wisdom that primes the…
