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Ben L
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“Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Attention is at the heart of psychotherapy: first to bring awareness to problems, patterns and pain, second to control unconsidered reactions and replace them with considered responses.”
― Attention
― Attention
“for my own part I cannot cordially approve, I merely tolerate, a philosopher who talks of setting bounds to the desires. Is it possible for desire to be kept within bounds? It ought to be destroyed, uprooted altogether.”
― Complete Works of Cicero
― Complete Works of Cicero
“it is by no means surprising that though we are first commended to Wisdom by the primary natural instincts, afterwards Wisdom itself becomes dearer to us than are the instincts from which we came to her.”
― Complete Works of Cicero
― Complete Works of Cicero
“Knowledge and action are very closely bound together, all agree. I go much further, and am convinced that knowledge and action are frequently synonymous, even identical in the Socratic fashion. Where we know fully and completely, suitable action follows automatically and reflexly. Choices are then made without conflict and with full spontaneity.”
― Toward a Psychology of Being
― Toward a Psychology of Being
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