#psycho

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#jung #psychology #religion #age

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior. ↗

— Scott Turow

#age

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#life

Through the ages, countless spiritual disciplines have urged us to look within ourselves and seek the truth. Part of that truth resides in a small, dark room -- one we are afraid to enter ↗

— Matthew J. Pallamary

#psychology #age

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#creativity #existentialism #humor #psychosis #art

Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#mindfulness #psychology #art

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#mindfulness #psychology #wisdom #art

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach. ↗