A part of being self-aware is realizing that my perspectives are only so negotiable. At a point, I have to accept myself biases, quirks,...

Most of the time, [repressional mechanisms] successfully fulfill their purpose of limiting the content of consciousness. The majority of...

Self-indulgence is an instance of putting comfort above practicality or answering a call to responsibility; it can be saying "yes" to a...

The feeling associated with giving up something loved – or at least something that is a part of ourselves and familiar – is depression....

Practicing self-discipline does not mean I have forever extinguished my fast-changing moods, anxieties, heartache, or my own vices, like...

If I could go back in time and advise myself one thing when I was going through a nasty, dirty, painful back-and-forth breakup, it would...

The perception that we are loving when we fall in love is a false perception. ... The extension of extending one's limits (which...

Experience trained me to think that if results weren't forthcoming, it was a sign of incompetence. Others did things with such ease and...

To be truly productive and successful professionally or creatively ... you need to set up long blocks of time where you can work...

Balance regarding productivity is planning my time so that my level of activity, discipline, and production is high enough that when i...

I used to get stumped, frozen like a deer in the headlights if I thought I had done something wrong. "Wrong" meant something weird or...

For me, writing does for my conversations what meditation does for consciousness. Namely, it’s a byway for articulation, poise, and...

Why am I never content about anything? What if I told you that this attribute you are inquiring about is the very best part of you? There...

Writing helps us see the seams between our thoughts. If we let it, that includes the most savage, the most salacious, the most sultry of...

The creative process begins when an idea of something to create emerges in one's mind. ... One often becomes overwhelmed with a sense of...

Little things I do to undermine my own needs: Attempt to cuddle while falling asleep. I crave touch, but I know it precludes getting in...

The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life. A life of total honesty [means] a...

When does discipline become nothing more than fidgeting, tweaking? When it lacks productivity. I could spend forever tweaking. It's...

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." – attributed to Nietzsche in Academy of Ideas: Victor Frankl: Logotherapy and...

I can tell you two things with certainty. The first is that anything worthwhile will make you suffer. The second is that suffering is...