The Noonday Demon

In Nepal, when an elephant has a splinter or spike in his foot, his drivers put chilli in one of his eyes, and the elephant becomes so preoccupied with the pain of the chilli that he stops paying attention to the pain in his foot, and people can remove the spike without being trampled to death (and in a fairly short time, the chilli washes out of h

Therapy and medication are the most accessible treatments for depression, but another system has helped many people to cope with their illness, and that is faith. Human consciousness may be seen

successful relationships are usually partnerships in which power can be passed back

It is clear that stress drives up rates of depression. The biggest stress is humiliation; the second is loss.

Outward Bound attempts to keep to Hahn’s objectives: “I regard it as the foremost task of education to ensure survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity; an undefeatable spirit; tenacity in pursuit; readiness for sensible self-denial; and, above all, compassion.”

A child who has watched a parent solve a problem gains enormous strength from that.

To be or not to be? There is no other subject about which so much has been written and about which so little has been said. Hamlet proposes that the decision may rest on that “undiscover’d country from whose bourn no traveller returns.” And yet men who do not fear the unknown, who gladly venture into territories of strange experience, do not so gla

“It’s between 1 and 2 percent who get really optimal treatment,”

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