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It may be that, subconsciously, we all settle for explanations we are predisposed to accept, and reject those we are predisposed against.

Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

It involves feeling your fear of emptiness and loneliness, your yearning for love, and your denial of death.

David Deida • Finding God Through Sex: Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh

Religions are another example of a practice that has a positive impact for many people in terms of giving them meaning and purpose in their lives. The internal theory of religions tends to be that they represent a higher truth told by prophets and/or the result of direct appearances of gods on earth. The external theory is that people have a psycho... See more

Albert Wenger • A Short Note on Persistent Practices

But the legacy of Romanticism has been an epidemic of loneliness, as we are repeatedly brought up against the truth: the radical inability of any one other person to wholly grasp who we truly are. Yet there remains, besides the promises of love and religion, one other – and more solid – resource with which to address our loneliness: culture.

Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education

Our Divine Double

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the only occasion on which man realizes his complete humanity by giving full “play” to both sides of his twofold nature, thinking and feeling.

Bob Black • The Abolition of Work

Freud was a modern alchemist who reformulated medieval demons as complexes and Darwinian imperatives. He translated all things devilish - lust, violence, cruelty - into terms that were compatible with twentieth-century thinking.

Frank Tallis • Mortal Secrets

The mythologist Joseph Campbell said that ‘the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections.’

Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

distinctly human about our lives seems to depend upon our viewing one another as autonomous persons,