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Four Favorite Ways to Suffer
Knowing these four ways we suffer helps us to avoid them. If you’re looking for attention, try wearing a T-shirt with this question embossed across the chest in bold type—Who Will I be Without my...
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Underlying Dynamics that Breed Bullies
Self-doubt concerning personal value influences both the bully and the victim. If we want our society to put a stop to bullying—an excellent goal, of course, one embraced by President Barack Obama,...
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Occupy the Psyche
Achieving progress is an inner and outer process. The Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS) is searching for insight, wisdom, and a sense of direction. These resources are available to us when we turn...
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When Money Enriches Our Suffering
Money is a counterfeit coin for measuring our value. Money is important—it’s the grease in the economic machine. Some of us, though, get that grease all over our clothes, hair, and skin. When our body...
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O Shame, Where is Thy Secret Source?
Self-knowledge helps us to penetrate more deeply into the roots of shame. Shame is a powerful and self-damaging emotion, and many books in recent years have tackled the subject in search of its roots....
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The Missing Link in OCD
The missing link lurks in our psyche behind the painful symptoms. You can’t touch it, see it, or smell it. But it’s there all the time, the hidden instigator of numerous human ailments and miseries...
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How to Enhance Your Verbal Skill
The solution involves bringing our weak side into sharper focus. You probably remember occasions when you had difficulty saying what you wanted to say or expressing what was on your mind. Some people...
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How Do We Achieve Self-Control?
People can lack self-control in ways that are subtle and unconscious. “If self-control is so important,” a reader asks, “how are we supposed to achieve it?” Personally, I don’t much like the term...
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The Psychology of Wealth Disparity
The collective neurosis behind wealth disparity weighs on human destiny. Wealth disparity continues to grow in developed nations. By next year, as Oxfam reported this month, the richest one percent...
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Hidden Dynamics of Racism
Depth psychology sheds more light on racist behavior. News commentators have been trying to figure out what motivated a group of white University of Oklahoma students on an outing earlier this month to...
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Unconscious Bias in Race Relations
Unconscious projection is a big player in producing racial tension. Protests against the handling of racial tensions broke out this month on university campuses across the United States, and once again...
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Answers to Questions from Readers (Part 4)
The path to inner freedom. Readers often send me emails with their comments and questions. Here I answer three of them, edited to remove identifying details. My responses are in italics. My life has...
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Now’s the Time for Heroes
Now is the time for each of us to find purpose and direction. The world is convulsing in agony and terror, and every one of us is needed to contribute some heroism to the drama of aspiring humanity....
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When Money Enriches Our Suffering
Money is a counterfeit coin for measuring our value. Money is important—it’s the grease in the economic machine. Some of us, though, get that grease all over our clothes, hair, and skin. When our body...
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O Shame, Where is Thy Secret Source?
Self-knowledge helps us to penetrate more deeply into the roots of shame. Shame is a powerful and self-damaging emotion, and many books in recent years have tackled the subject in search of its roots....
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The Missing Link in OCD
You can’t touch it, see it, or smell it. But it’s there all the time, the hidden instigator of numerous human ailments and miseries, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. The missing link lurks in...
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How to Enhance Your Verbal Skill
You probably remember occasions when you had difficulty saying what you wanted to say or expressing what was on your mind. Some people become tongue-tied on a daily basis. Even when they do manage to...
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How Do We Achieve Self-Control?
“If self-control is so important,” a reader asks, “how are we supposed to achieve it?” Personally, I don’t much like the term “self-control.” It suggests a desperate struggle between willpower and...
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The Psychology of Wealth Disparity
Wealth disparity continues to grow in developed nations. By next year, as Oxfam reported this month, the richest one percent will likely control half the world’s total wealth. This disparity is...
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Hidden Dynamics of Racism
Depth psychology sheds more light on racist behavior. News commentators have been trying to figure out what motivated a group of white University of Oklahoma students on an outing earlier this month to...
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