Neal Grossman > Quotes

“We must resist the habit of thinking that God created the world; rather”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“Greed is especially harmful”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“analysis in the absence of appreciation is absurd. What is the point of analyzing a Beethoven quartet”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“This split or incongruity between inner feelings and outer behavior is especially severe for men in our culture”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“Quite literally”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“we can use such considerations to strengthen our resolve to give primary attention to our own inner life. We can resolve to relinquish socially acquired outer-directed goals”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“Spinoza”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“The socially programmed mind is a great deceiver.”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“For our mind is a part of the Mind of God”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“Of course”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“we tend to ignore”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“No culture that fails to embody these three principles—self-acceptance or self-love”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“The physical and the mental are qualitatively distinct aspects—“Attributes,” in Spinoza’s terminology—of God. Because they are qualitatively distinct”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“a person who seeks political power to control others is not “powerful” in Spinoza’s sense; on the contrary”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“insofar as we are able to shift our awareness from the action on the screen to the fact that we are watching a movie”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“The pattern or subsystem within your mind/body that causes you to create these specific feelings in response to those specific outer events seeks to keep your awareness on the outer events”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind