psychology

a belief in oneness was more strongly related to feeling connected with distant people and aspects of the natural world than with people with whom one is close !

I can give you examples and processes, but if you don’t have the ability to understand where you are and who you are, those won’t serve you much.

The path will be confusing.

It’s not supposed to make sense just yet.

When you’re doing something new, you aren’t supposed to be anything other than lost because you’re flailing in the middle of the ocean

So why don’t we live life that way? Why don’t we accept falling — even if it’s a failure — as part of the ride?

Because we’re afraid of feeling.

What if we all lived life like a surfer on a wave?

The answer that kept coming to me was that we would take more risks.

I personally like to think of self-development as an endless series of problems that, once solved, increase in meaning and complexity, making life more interesting as you solve them.

Since the majority of you are in stages blue through green, and since we are focused on our personal lives, these will almost always involve the big 3:

• Work

• Health

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The purpose of education, at this point, is awareness.

Nature vs Nurture — “the relative importance of an individual’s innate qualities as compared to an individual’s personal experiences in causing individual differences, especially in behavioral traits.”

how love bombing begins: with an emotional high that quickly turns into a confusing crash. Once dependency sets in, the dynamic can shift dramatically, leaving someone feeling off balance and unsure of what just happened.

Marriage ends up as a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully avoided investigating.