Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
Idries ShahTags: life consciousness death will psychology evolution sufism sufis
Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying, or maintaining of definite emotional states' (Lee, 1913: 99–100). When we read or hear stories, we put aside our own goals and plans, and we temporarily replace our own goals and plans with those of the story characters.
Mikkel WallentinTags: literature psychology narratology scientific-study-of-literature
...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).
Mikkel WallentinTags: literature psychology narratology
It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.
Stanley MilgramTags: human-nature psychology
Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth
Thandiwe NewtonTags: psychology sufism
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