You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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.. Your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion.. Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?
insight emotion
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
fantasy insight
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
Something.. Made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.
Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.
human-nature insight hell
The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.
psychology honesty insight awareness behavior
We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.
honesty insight awareness reflection
I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.
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All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.
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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
intelligence insight
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.
literary-criticism insight
Everything can change in a heartbeat; it can slip away in an instant. Everything you trust, and treasure, whatever brings you comfort, comes at a terrible cost. Health is temporary; money disappears. Safety is nothing big an illusion.? So when the moment comes, and everything you depend upon changes, or perhaps someone you love disappears, or no longer loves you, must disaster follow? Or will you-somehow-adapt?
peace insight coping divorce
It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.
people insight intentions visions
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
psychology insight anthropology
Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.
self-image reality thought insight think
Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.
sadness insight shame
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
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We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
funny humor insight journalism
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.
mothers insight
You can't do that, it makes too much sense.
funny humor insight philosophy-of-life
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
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