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Quotes About Psychological

an intensification of both physiological and psychological sensation; disinhibition; a sense of 'givenness' or connection; auditory hallucinations – voice hearing of a rather particular kind; boundary confusions; an exhilarating consciousness of being at risk, in peril; ineffability and bliss.
~ Sara Maitland
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
~ David Attenborough
To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
~ Ang Lee
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
Love taken seriously is a radical outlook, a major departure from the psychological orientation that rules the world. It is threatening not because it is a small idea, but because it is so huge.
~ Marianne Williamson
La fe es el conocimiento psicológico de que el bien despliega una fuerza que opera constantemente en todas las dimensiones. Nuestros intentos de dirigirla no hacen más que interferir en ella.
~ Marianne Williamson
El amor, si se lo toma seriamente, es un punto de vista radical, una importante desviación de la orientación psicológica que rige el mundo. Es amenazador no porque sea una idea pequeña, sino porque es tan enorme.
~ Marianne Williamson
Now, as I look back on my life, I can honestly say I wouldn't change it. The pain and suffering have brought me psychological understanding and spiritual strength. I still feel the pain when I reflect on those experiences, but while once they would throw me deeper and deeper into anxious despair, now they feed my desire to keep growing. (3)
~ Marie Balter
spoken confession releases us into forgiveness. Speaking enacts the attitude of repentance that is the precondition of healing and restoration. Like the naming of God's attributes and promises in praise, the particularity and specificity of what is named accounts for much of the psychological efficacy of confession.
~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
I'd actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there'd be no limit to the fiends I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world.
~ Marisha Pessl
The free world is shuffling into a psychological bondage whose chains are mostly of our own making.
~ Mark Steyn
Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it.
~ Anthony Burgess
L'artiste qui n'a pas ausculté le cÅ"ur de l'homme, l'artiste qui ignore qu'il est un bouc émissaire, que son devoir est d'aimanter, d'attirer, de faire tomber sur ses épaules les colères errantes de l'époque pour la décharger de son mal-être psychologique, celui-là n'est pas un artiste.
~ Antonin Artaud
Belief in God is apparently a psychological arti-fact of mammalian reproduction.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
A feeling of foreboding, and, indeed, of physical as well as psychological discomfort, had come over him. He suddenly recalled—and this did nothing at all to help—a phrase he had once come across: "Someone is walking over your grave.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
No ghost in all the long histories of ghosts has ever hurt anyone physically. The only damage done is by the victim to himself.
~ Shirley Jackson
The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.
~ Sidney Sheldon
If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines; and such a system would from the outset take over all the psychological characteristics of religion—the same sanctity, rigidity and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought—for its own defence. You have to have something of the kind in order to meet the requirements of education. And you cannot do without education.
~ Sigmund Freud
Human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind.
~ Sigmund Freud
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.
~ Sigmund Freud
Among the factors that play a part in the causation of neuroses and that have created the conditions under which the forces of the mind are pitted against one another, three emerge into prominence: a biological, a phylogenetic and a purely psychological factor.
~ Sigmund Freud
The fading of a memory or the losing of its affect depends on various factors. The most important of these is whether there has been an energetic reaction to the event that provokes the affect. By 'reaction' we here understand the whole class of voluntary and involuntary reflexes - from tears to acts of revenge - in which, as experience shows us, the affects are discharged. If this reaction takes place to a sufficient amount a large part of the affect disappears as a result.
~ Sigmund Freud
Power and shekels are no guarantee of personal satisfaction. As you attempt to claw your way to the top, do not lose sight of your psychological needs. Make choices that bring you satisfaction and joy. (…) If being top dog makes you happy, then have at it. Live your truth. For everyone else I say this: be wary of jeopardizing your peace of mind in the pursuit of status, money, or power. Needlepoint that!
~ Simon Doonan
Amythia," the pathological lack of myths, has been diagnosed as the root cause of any number of modern sociological and psychological evils.
~ John Michael Greer