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"If you can’t seem to make yourself happy, do little things to make other people happy. This is a very effective magic trick. Focus on...

"How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright-day wo...

"Loneliness, in its quintessential form, is of a nature that is incommunicable by the one who suffers it. Nor, unlike other non-commun...

"...Our blindness grows out of the small, daily decisions that we make, which embed us more snugly inside our affirming thoughts and v...

"Throughout our lives, we come to inhabit the seven layers of identity, often interpolating between them and constantly changing withi...

"...unless that underground level of the self is preserved as a verified and verifying element in your make-up, you are going to be in...

The older I get, the more I understand the importance of having multiple sources of energy -  especially sources outsi...

Philip Seymour Hoffman Last summer I found a small box stashed away in my apartment, a box  filled with enough Vicodin to kill me. I wo...

"...Because limbic resonance and regulation join human minds together in a continuous exchange of influential signals, every brain is ...

"Dozens of studies demonstrate that solitary people have a vastly increased rate of premature death from all causes - they are three t...

"...Within the effulgence of their new brain, mammals developed a capacity we call limbic resonance - a symphony of mutual exchange an...

Evolution is not an upward staircase "Many people conceive of evolution as an upward staircase, an unfolding sequence that produces ev...

".....one Sunday morning in 1971, Lewis was summoned to a terrifying scene. A man was holding a loaded gun on his family, threatening ...

"The Pleiades, an open star cluster, sparkles in the constellation Taurus. ..Although I can't see it with the naked eye, I know a ...

"...Storr sees in Churchill's story a classic relationship between depression and hostility, in which an emotionally deprived chil...

"...For most of his life, he (Winston Churchill) crumbled under the repeat blows of a depression so familiar, loud, and unshakable, th...

"We worship individuality and long for freedom, but we are invariably drawn to crowds, which leaves us with a resentful ambivalence to...

"You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You thi...

"In all cultures, men are brought up to be “masculine” and to disregard and repress those aspects of their temperament that the cultur...

"For Freud human life was a process of ego-building, not the quest for a fictitious inner self. Looking for your true self invites une...