Sublime

Joy: Expanding Human Awareness by William C. Schutz,

who is trying to be better, as opposed to someone who is allowing themselves to believe in the illusion that they are always a good person.

PART I Skills of Character

The reality is that most people have an inner fixed-mindset pessimist in them right alongside their inner growth-mindset optimist.

Character is more than just having principles. It’s a learned capacity to live by your principles.

Seeing someone well is a powerfully creative act. No one can fully appreciate their own beauty and strengths unless those things are mirrored back to them in the mind of another.

social disposition (how nice you are to people in general – your natural social style),

“It must be stated that self-actualization is not enough. Personal salvation and what is good for the person alone cannot be really understood in isolation. . . . The good of other people must be invoked, as well as the good for oneself. . . . It is quite clear that a purely intrapsychic, individualistic psychology, without reference to other peopl

A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harvard, say to the Dalai Lama that for every act of cruelty in this world there are hundreds of small acts of kindness and connection. His conclusion: “To be benevolent rather than malevolent is probably a true feature of our species.” Being able to fee