📝 “It takes a lot of courage to take the unconscious seriously and to tackle the problems it raises.”
– Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols.
📝 “As a rule, whatever we don’t deal with in our lives we pass on to our children.”
– Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.
📝 “Sometime educated guesses can be made about the wounds of childhood by closely inspecting what matters adults irrationally lose their tempers over”
– Clarissa Estes Pinkola, Women Who Run with the Wolves.
📝 “Those with a negative attitude tend to operate from a basic position of fear towards life.They unconsciously want to limit what they see and experience to give them more control.”
– Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature.
📝 “In other words, the final terror of self-consciousness is the knowledge of one’s own death, which is the peculiar sentence on man alone in the animal
kingdom.”
– Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death.
I’m working my way through my notes from the last 12 months. I thought it would be interesting to share my notes by subject rather than per book.
What’s your next read on human psychology?
(If you don’t have one. Pick any of the books above and you’ll be good!👌🏻😉)
