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We often think that we might be helping those we love by not talking about the pain and sorrow. But experience suggests that talking directly about what people are feeling is comforting. It let’s us know our feelings are real and visible. It validates our suffering.
How to Comfort Someone Who Is Hurting
Bruce Lambert
The deeper we immerse ourselves in this quiet contemplation the more meaningful it becomes, Our twentieth century, Occidental culture does not encourage serene contemplation. We are under the considerable compulsion of an obsession, an expediency obsession. The dynamic of our society, based on competitive drives, tend to stimulate the go toward aggression and away from receptivity.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
You do not exist outside of your psyche’s being, but within it. Some of you may have just put children to bed as you read these lines. Some of you may be sitting at a table. Some of you may have just gone to the bathroom. These mundane activities may seem quite divorced from what I am telling you, yet in each simple gesture, and in the most necessary of physical acts, there is the great magical unknowing elegance in which you reside — and in the most ordinary of your motions, there are clues and hints as to the nature of the psyche and its human expression.
The Nature of the Psyche
Jane Roberts
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