Sublime

Human contact unties the strait jacket of inner isolation.

The Juilliard-trained actor Evan Handler, who not only survived acute myeloid leukemia but also severe depression, has talked about his decision to take antidepressants, which he did for a deliberately brief time. He took them because he wanted to know what true, normal happiness felt like. Once he did, he knew he would stop. He could go back to th

For Augustine, psychology is cartography: to understand oneself is a matter of mapping our penchant to look for love in all the wrong places.

“The core of the dream is not the manifest content but the emotional experience.”

Ram Dass once said, “After many years of undergoing psychoanalysis, teaching psychology, working as a psychotherapist, taking drugs, being in India, being a yogi, having a guru, and meditating for decades, as far as I can see I haven’t gotten rid of one neurosis. Not one. The only thing that changed is that they don’t define me anymore.

Maybe then they won’t have to spend so much of their life’s energy defending against the truth of their own lives.

It enables us to become fully aware of what is happening—and to restrain

Nothing exists in its own right or under its own power.