Psychics Quotes:

Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.

- Al Alvarez

source: Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.274, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Self, Media, Psychics

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Health, Psychics, Disease, Superficiality, 20th Century

Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

- Alexander Lowen

topic: Animal, Psychics, Feelings

In fifty years time, the need for true psychics and conscious mediums (such as H.P.B., for instance [Helena Petrova Blavatsky]) will be very great if the Masters' plans are to be carried through to fruition, and the movement must be set on foot in preparation for the coming of Him for Whom all nations wait

- Alice Bailey

topic: Feet, Years, Psychics

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

- Amit Ray

topic: Flower, Psychics, Meditation, Chanting, Cosmic Rays

Sometimes you just need to give in to the yuckiness of the day, throw your psychic hands up in the air and trust that tomorrow will be an improvement.

- Amy Shearn

topic: Psychics, Air, Hands, Up In The Air, Hands Up

Dreams are essential to life.

- Anais Nin

topic: Dream, Psychics, Empowerment

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

- Andre Breton

source: "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

topic: Mean, Psychics, Moral, Surrealism

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Mother, Psychics, Helping

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Children, Psychics, Damage, Used To Love

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Animal, Psychics, Companionship, Artifacts

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

- Aravind Adiga

topic: New York, Years, Psychics

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

- Archie Panjabi

topic: Believe, Psychics, Needs, Why Things Happen

Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

- Ariana Franklin

topic: Psychics, Would Be, Crowds, Assorted

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

- Aristotle

topic: Thinking, Psychics, Soul

It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.

- B. B. Warfield

topic: Attitude, Psychics, Saving

Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.

- Barbara De Angelis

topic: Passion, Psychics, Making Love

Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are.

- Barbara De Angelis

topic: Passion, Psychics, Breathing

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Mom, Years, Psychics

Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

- Boris Sidis

source: Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

topic: Psychics, Psychology, Unity

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

- Boris Sidis

source: Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

topic: Psychics, Psychology, Process, Physiological

Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

- Boris Sidis

source: Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

topic: Psychics, Psychology, Individual

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Art, Psychics, Vision

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.

- Bruno Heller

topic: Men, Psychics, Names

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Stars, Psychics, These Days

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

- Carl Jung

topic: Hippie, Epidemics, Psychics

Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

- Carl Jung

topic: Psychics, Doe, Prejudice

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

- Carl Jung

topic: Dream, Psychics, Trying

The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.

- Carl Jung

topic: Men, Self, Psychics

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

- Carl Jung

topic: Psychics, Psychology, Perception, Engraved, Archetype

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

- Carl Jung

topic: Psychics, Creative, Psychology

I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

- Carl Jung

topic: Night, Years, Psychics, Spatial

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

- Caroline Knapp

topic: Order, Psychics, Cake, Menus, Calculators

Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

- Chang-Rae Lee

source: Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

topic: Psychics, Discounts, Warmth, Hives

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Thoughtful, Thinking, Psychics

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Love Is, Psychics, Rivers, Overload, Garbage Cans

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

- Cherrie Moraga

topic: Emotional, Psychics, Luxury

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

- Chief Seattle

source: Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press

topic: Change, Native American, Psychics, Indian Wisdom, Meaningful Death

It was about finding the sacred within myself, my center, my peaceful core. We each have a sacred space within us, a part of us. This sacred space is a temple, a temple to our inner power, our intuition, and our connection with the divine. Discovery of psychic powers, spells, and meditation are all things that lead us to the temple. They help us find the road within and walk our path to the inner temple.

- Christopher Penczak

topic: Space, Discovery, Psychics, Inner Power, Sacred Space

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

- Chynna Phillips

topic: Mother, Past, Psychics

No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

- Criss Angel

topic: Psychics, Ability

I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

- Dan Aykroyd

source: Psychic News # 4001, April 18, 2009.

topic: Years, Psychics, Gone

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

- Danny Elfman

topic: Psychics, Trying, Directors

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Psychics, Lonely People

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Pain, Writing, Psychics, Tumors, Chemotherapy

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

- Debbie Ford

topic: Psychics, Energy, Beneath The Surface

When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one.

- Dharma Mittra

topic: Yoga, Psychics, Mind

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

- Dick Cavett

topic: Psychics, Laughing, Quacks, Spiritualism

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

- Dionne Warwick

topic: Psychics, Wonderful, Georgians

I'm not psychic myself.

- Dionne Warwick

topic: Psychics

Breathing affects your respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, muscular, and psychic systems, and also has a general affect on your sleep, memory, ability to concentrate, and your energy levels.

- Donna Farhi

topic: Memories, Sleep, Psychics, Cardiovascular, Energy Levels

The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Responsibility, Reflection, Psychics

Fix yourself something to drink," she said. "I don't have any Mr. Pepper." "You mean Dr. Pepper?" "For the love of God!" She exploded. "People expect everything from a psychic! 'Doctor,' 'mister,' I was close enough. I didn't call it 'Mrs. Salt,' did I?

- Elizabeth Chandler

topic: Mean, Doctors, Psychics, Dr Pepper

Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a higher degree of psychic activity, a superior stage of development.

- Ernst Haeckel

source: ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

topic: Animal, Men, Psychics, Stages Of Development

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

- Ethel Waters

topic: Wall, Psychics, Rooms

It is as if the formation of patterns within the unconscious mind is accompanied by physical patterns in the outer world. In particular, as psychic patterns are on the point of reaching consciousness, the synchronicities reach their peak; moreover, they generally disappear as the individual becomes consciously aware of a new alignment of forces within his or her own personality...It is as if the internal restructuring produces external resonance, or as if a burst of 'mental energy' is propagated outward onto the world.

- F. David Peat

topic: Psychics, Personality, Unity, Synchronicity, Unconscious Mind

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib

- Frank Herbert

topic: Hard Times, Psychics, People

The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

- G. Stanley Hall

topic: Emotional, Opposites, Psychics, Emotionally Unstable

We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.

- Gretel Ehrlich

source: Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Artist, Psychics, Rivers, Dormant

Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are also the conquered and the controlled. 'True desires' - erotic, gustatory, olfactory, musical, aesthetic, psychic, & spiritual - are best attained in a context of freedom of self and other in physical proximity & mutual aid. Everything else is at best a sort of representation.

- Hakim Bey

topic: Spiritual, Self, Psychics, Mutual Aid

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

- Helen McCloy

topic: Psychics, Criminals, Gloves, Fingerprints

There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

- Henri Bergson

topic: Psychics, Degrees, Different, Manifold

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

- Henry Reed

topic: Mean, Oneness, Psychics, Sixth Sense

There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.

- Howard Gardner

source: "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

topic: Children, Artist, Psychics, Cognizant

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

- Hugh Laurie

topic: Ideas, Psychics, Suffering, Success Happiness

For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world they know is almost certainly worse than any their earlier counterparts knew. It is likely they are worse off materially, despite the technological changes. In substantive as opposed to formal terms, they are more, not less, subject to arbitrary constraints, since the central mechanisms are more pervasive and more efficient. And they bear the brunt of the various kinds of psychic malaise, as well as of the destructiveness of civil wars.

- Immanuel Wallerstein

topic: War, Psychics, World, Destructiveness, Technological Change

Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

- Irvine Welsh

topic: America, Psychics, Drug, Single Sentence

As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion...

- J. Gordon Melton

topic: Reality, Psychics, America

Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

- Jack London

topic: Book, Psychics, Glasses, Bogs, Gnosticism

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

- Jacques Lacan

topic: Psychics, Waiting, Needs

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

- James Randi

source: "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural". Book by James Randi, 1995.

topic: Mean, Psychics, Spoons, Hard Way

[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

- James Randi

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Psychics

A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a world that often seems difficult and mundane. They promise health, wealth, wisdom, eternal life. But if you examine the record, it's not the psychics but the hard-nosed scientists who have actually delivered the things that improve human life. And, to me, science describes a world far more interesting than any psychic fantasy. It's a good world -- not perfect -- but it's ours. So we'd better learn to live with it, the way it is.

- James Randi

topic: Hate, Thinking, Psychics, Endless Possibilities, Health Wealth

I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.

- Janet Morris

topic: Psychics, Pipe, Clearing

The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.

- Jayne Ann Krentz

source: "Interview: Jayne Ann Krentz, author of ‘Copper Beach’". Interview with Joyce Lamb, Pamela Clare, tpepost.com. January 10, 2012.

topic: Psychics, Ideas, People

If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.

- Jean-Claude Van Damme

topic: Phones, Psychics, Answers

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

- Jenna Fischer

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Jobs, Crazy, Psychics

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Art, Psychics, Venture

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Eye, Creating, Psychics, Pollock

I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.

- Jerzy Kosinski

topic: Home, Psychics, People

If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

- Joan Bauer

topic: School, Psychics, Doe

The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies.

- Joanna Macy

topic: Flower, Emotional, Psychics, Numbing

I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs.

- John A. Keel

topic: Psychics, Vision, May

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

- John Bercow

topic: Psychics, Mind, Figures, Public Figures

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

- John Cowper Powys

topic: Psychics, Desire, World, Unsatisfied

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer

- John Edward

source: Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

topic: Prayer, Self, Psychics, Sign Language

My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

- John Edward

topic: Psychics, Rosary, Praying

People are great. But there's people who you get together with and you talk and you go away feeling energized, you feel inspired. And then there's people who you talk with and you go away feeling horrible, feeling drained, feeling like you're incapable of doing anything. Those people are psychic vampires and I now stay away from them.

- John Zorn

source: "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.

topic: Psychics, People, Feelings, Drained, Get Together

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

- Josef Pieper

topic: Mean, Psychics, Joy

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Firefly, Space, Psychics

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

- Julian Barnes

topic: Psychics, Giving, Looks

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

- Julien Offray de La Mettrie

topic: Psychics, Knowing, Matter, Psychic Abilities

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

- Karl Abraham

source: Karl Abraham, Hilda C. Abraham (1979). “Clinical Papers and Essays on Psycho-analysis”, p.208, Karnac Books

topic: Dream, Race, Psychics

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

- Keith Barry

topic: Believe, Psychics, Mind, I Can Read

I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there's a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic. I would be wearing it whether or not I was in the public eye.

- Kesha

source: Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

topic: Eye, Sight, Psychics, Placenta

I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.

- Larry Niven

topic: Psychics, Long, People

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

topic: Real, Psychics, Stuff

I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.

- Lauren Lee Smith

source: "Why Does the New CSI Like Pushing Grissom's Buttons?". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. November 13, 2008.

topic: Psychics, People, My Best Friend

Knowing how to wield psychic power leads to real solutions. Your feminine nature is strong, not weak. Your psychic gifts are your tools and landmarks that will allow you to take charge and further your own goals.

- Laurie Cabot

source: Laurie Cabot (2013). “The Witch in Every Woman: Reawakening the Magical Nature of the Feminine to Heal, Protect, Create, and Emp ower”, p.68, Delta

topic: Strong, Real, Psychics

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

- Lawrence Durrell

source: Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.272, Faber & Faber

topic: Sex, Psychics, People, Paraphrase, Clumsy

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

- Lee Ryan

topic: Boys, Psychics, Tarot, Boy Bands, Tarot Cards

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

- Leonard Cohen

topic: Depression, Psychics, Way, Clinical Depression, Clinicals

Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up something in the same spots in the house as the primary witnesses who reported the haunting. This indicates that something actually exists in the environment at those spots on some level, physical or psychic.

- Loyd Auerbach

source: Loyd Auerbach (2010). “Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal”, p.34, Ronin Publishing

topic: Psychics, People, House

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

- Mads Mikkelsen

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Psychics, People, Littles

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

- Mae West

topic: Psychics, Long, Empowerment

I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Drinking, Psychics, Voice, Closest, Callas

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.

- Marc Chagall

topic: Eye, Mean, Psychics

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

- Marc Chagall

topic: Psychics, Dimensions, Painting, Pictorial

Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic growth. It is not so hard to find at least a little sympathy for theologian Martin Luther, who prayed to God not to send him any dreams at all, fearful he could not distinguish between those of divine origin and those sent by the Devil.

- Marc Ian Barasch

topic: Dream, Psychics, Faithful, Risky Business, Exalted

Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Psychics, Games, Rose, Stop Whining

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Doors, Psychics, Humanity

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Prayer, Pain, Psychics

One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

- Marie-Louise von Franz

topic: Psychics, Creative, Wicked, Inactivity, Giftedness

Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.

- Marie-Louise von Franz

source: "Psyche and Matter". Book by Marie-Louise von Franz, p. 2016, 1992.

topic: Lying, Reality, Psychics, Jung, Archetype

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

- Marie-Louise von Franz

source: Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.203, Shambhala Publications

topic: Psychics, Physics, Process

A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond." "If only we had a captain here.

- Marissa Meyer

topic: Psychics, Ships, Captains

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

- Mark E. Smith

topic: Psychics, Way, Used, Drank

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

topic: Media, Psychics, Political, Cultural Change

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

- Martha Beck

topic: Psychics, Giving, Choices, Whom To Trust

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

- Mary Daly

source: Mary Daly (2016). “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism”, p.307, Beacon Press

topic: Self, Psychics, Insulting, Battered Women

...but Cliff keeps pushing for the truth like therapists do, because they all have some sort of psychic ability that allows them to see through your lies, and therefore they know you will eventually tire of the talking game and will offer up the truth.

- Matthew Quick

source: Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

topic: Lying, Talking, Psychics, Psychic Abilities

The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.

- May Sarton

topic: Art, Psychics, Mad

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

- Meher Baba

topic: Psychics, Worry, Joy, Dissipation, Fullness Of Life

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

- Mel Brooks

source: "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

topic: Psychics, Bullshit, Empowerment, Profanity, Black Humor

A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

topic: Self, Psychics, Two

Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.

- Mira Bartok

topic: Mean, Loss, Psychics

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

- Molly Sims

topic: Believe, Psychics, Magic

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

- P.D. Ouspensky

topic: Men, Psychics, Two

As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates our total physical and psychic existence. We are always in touch with it.

- Paul Caponigro

topic: Spiritual, Psychics, Levels

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

- Paul Valery

topic: Psychics, Ironic, Empowerment

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Heart, Psychics, Soul, Alchemist Book, Alchemist Love

Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

- Peter Ackroyd

topic: Believe, Writing, Psychics, I'm Back

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

- Phil Donahue

topic: Loss, Psychics, Lost Friendship, Loss Of Faith

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

- Philip Jose Farmer

topic: Light, Psychics, Evil

Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga-whether physical yoga or meditation-with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109)

- Ravi Ravindra

source: Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

topic: Yoga, Eye, Psychics, Being Quiet

As we continue toward the fifth secret technique of psychics, I have a gut feeling that you are the sort of person that lets your heart rule your head, can sometimes be too impulsive for your own good, and have recently come into contact with a goat. Rest assured you are not the only one.

- Richard Wiseman

source: Richard Wiseman (2011). “Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

topic: Heart, Psychics, Feelings

A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your partner or friend is somehow magically psychic when it comes to you -\-\ so much so that he or she should unfailingly intuit exactly what you need, even if you don't ask for it. This fantasy may seem romantic, but it can undermine the most promising alliances. To counteract any tendencies you might have to indulge in the assumption of clairvoyance, practice stating your desires aloud.

- Rob Brezsny

topic: Psychics, Practice, Desire, Clairvoyance

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

- Robert Gottlieb

topic: Fate, Psychics, Hobbies, Murder Mysteries, Forensics

And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

- Robert Jay Lifton

topic: Psychics, Everyday, Weapons, Hydrogen Bomb, Numbing

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

- Sam Smith

topic: Men, Psychics, Mind

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

- Sandra Lee

topic: Dark, Psychics, Want

Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?

- Shantideva

topic: Psychics, Empowerment, Unhappy, Being Unhappy

If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!

- Sid Caesar

topic: Psychics, Empowerment

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Real, Psychics, Data, Conscious And Unconscious

Remaining calm no matter what's going on around you is an incredible challenge, but it will liberate your psychic sense and will probably add a few years to your life as well-after all, getting worked up about things only makes them worse. Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don't have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.

- Sonia Choquette

topic: Drama, Years, Psychics, Remaining Calm

Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.

- Starhawk

topic: Spiritual, Psychics, Path

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

- Stephen Greenblatt

source: Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began”, p.3, Random House

topic: Art, Psychics, Particular, Swerve, Penetrate

I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.

- Steven Wright

topic: Girlfriend, Psychics, Mets, She Left Me

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

- Sun Ra

source: Interview with Jennifer Rycenga, November 2, 1988.

topic: Psychics, Spirit, Born

Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

- Suze Orman

topic: Home, Psychics, Satisfaction, Payoff

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Philosophy, Book, Psychics

Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.

- Sylvia Browne

topic: Thinking, Psychics, Scary

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.

- Teju Cole

source: Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

topic: Light, Air, Psychics, Luxury Hotels, City Parks

Grunt, foam at the mouth, and otherwise get psychic.

- Theodore Annemann

topic: Psychics, Magic, Mouths, Grunt

Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred.

- Thomas Berry

topic: Future, Psychics, Understanding

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

- Tina Brown

topic: Mistake, Psychics, Punishment, Reward And Punishment

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

- Todd Gitlin

topic: Psychics, Media, Way

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

- Tony Kushner

topic: Gay, Hands, Psychics

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

- Uri Geller

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Psychics, Agency, Mind

What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Loyalty, Jobs, Psychics

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

- Wassily Kandinsky

topic: Real, Psychics, Color

I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn't want to go, because I've put on like a hundred pounds.

- Wendy Liebman

topic: Psychics, Empowerment, Want, Preschool

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

- Wilhelm Reich

source: "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

topic: Football, Average, Psychics, Invincibility, Civil Rights Movement

Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.

- Wilhelm Reich

topic: Men, Years, Psychics, Mechanization, Internalizing

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose “story” “plot” “continuity”... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer...

- William S. Burroughs

topic: Writing, Psychics, Stories

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

- William S. Burroughs

topic: Psychics, Junk, Relief, Hypothalamus, Libido

Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

- William S. Burroughs

topic: Dog, Cat, Psychics

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

- William S. Burroughs

topic: Writing, Psychics, Space

The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

- William Styron

topic: Depression, Zero, Psychics, Antithesis

Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.

- Wolfgang Pauli

source: "Atom and Archetype" edited by Carl Alfred Meier, translated by David Roscoe, 1992.

topic: Spiritual, Psychics, Knowing

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

- Yusef Komunyakaa

topic: Psychics, Practice, Black, Black Males

I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.

- Allan Moyle

source: Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

topic: Psychics, Beneath The Surface, Surface

If I play one psychic, then I'm playing a psychic at least three or four more times.

- Amy Hill

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Psychics, Play, Three

We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models.

- Dumitru Tepeneag

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Dream, Reality, Psychics

One thing my teacher taught me about getting psychic information with my intuition was to say, "Just show me the truth of this situation, God." That helps us to be able to read it more clearly.

- Echo Bodine

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Teacher, Psychics, Intuition

I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.

- Larry Clark

source: "Journal of Contemporary Art" Interview with Jutta Koether, www.jca-online.com.

topic: Thinking, Psychics, Needs

It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.

- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

topic: Children, Psychics, Healthy, Healthy Happy

But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions. It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage this has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.

- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

topic: Children, Psychics, Punishment, Healthy Happy, Poisonous

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Psychics, New Years Resolution, Intuition

For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.

- Peter Blegvad

topic: Guitar, Typewriters, Psychics

Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.

- Quentin S. Crisp

topic: Dream, Cutting, Psychics, Castration

For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented.

- Russell Sherman

topic: Moving, Psychics, Two, Timeliness, Timelessness

I'm not a psychic. I don't look at a crystal ball.

- Allan Lichtman

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Psychics, Crystals, Balls, Crystal Ball

Feminism is not simply the idea that women can benefit from rediscovering themselves but also that our whole culture can benefit from correcting its psychic/sexual imbalance through each person becoming whole again.

- Anne Rush

topic: Psychics, Ideas, Feminism, Becoming Whole

I wonder if at this point, I mean, given [Donald's Trump] noted inability to deal with shame, humiliation and loss, and what seem like epically deep psychic wounds that he carries around, that he just wants to go and be in a place that he feels like he created.

- Michelle Goldberg

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Mean, Loss, Psychics

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

- Michelle Williams

topic: Past, Psychics, Understanding

When people begin to understand that whatever they think and feel happens, then the psychic phenomena begin to rise, which is what's happening now.

- Drunvalo Melchizedek

topic: Thinking, Psychics, People

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

- Roger Sessions

topic: Psychics, Energy, Emotion

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.

- Franny Armstrong

topic: Mother, Psychics, My Family, Sisters And Mothers

Everyone is psychic to some degree, and really successful paranormal investigators even if they do not realize it are using their own psychic ability to sense the environment.

- Rosemary Ellen Guiley

topic: Successful, Psychics, Degrees, Investigators, Paranormal

No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.

- Storm Constantine

topic: Psychics, Confusing, Lovers

Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

- Isaac Bonewits

topic: Art, Psychics, People, Parapsychology

I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

- Lance Henriksen

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Player, Psychics, People, Scenarios

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

- Ezra Pound

source: Ezra Pound (1992). “A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

topic: Psychics, Empowerment, Mediocre

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

- Leonard Cohen

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Reality, Thinking, Psychics

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

- Aberjhani

topic: Self, Psychics, Awareness, Sense Of Self

The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the Westerners call the soul. It takes interest in the movements of the mind and the vital only when there is a harmony between these movements and the truth above. The knowledge of the psychic being is deeper.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

topic: Psychics, Soul, Mind

What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

topic: Heart, Essence, Psychics

Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do.

- Lev Grossman

topic: Crazy, Writing, Psychics

What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking about today and will think about again tomorrow. Your mind doesn't change because you are carrying too large a load. So the mind is caught. It's seized by its own structures. It can't consider different ways of thinking or doing or being or relating. It's all you can do with your psychic energy to keep pulling yourself along with this huge bag that you are dragging behind you.

- Jean Houston

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Thinking, Psychics, Yesterday