The Study of Psychology:  Much More Simply Human Than Otherwise*
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as
one goes on.  Samuel Butler
Hey, this meditation stuff really works.  I am visualizing the fish jumping
right into my mouth, I am perfectly relaxed and don't have to do a thing.
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to
its original dimensions.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
You cannot depend on your eyes when your
imagination is out of focus.  Mark Twain
Zago, zagas, zagat.  
(I'll be sure to recommend this place to my friends)
If you smile when no
one else is around,
you really mean it.  
Andy Rooney
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as
many have thought.  It has been
proven that in the United States more
Americans are killed in automobile
accidents than are killed by buffalo.  
Art Buchwald
Tu causa Es Cur Liberi Nostri Tam Turpiculi Sint

(You're the reason our kids are so ugly)
We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles
away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles
away. You could drive that in a week, but for some
reason nobody's ever done it.  Andy Rooney
A gene can be either
dominant or recessive,
depending on which type
of gene it is.  Dave Barry
1.    Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
2.    Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of
"Beeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip..."
3.    If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
4.    Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at
the screen.  
5.    Speak only in a "robot" voice.
6.    Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.
7.    Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one
will "swipe your grub".
8.    Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 98 copies.
9.    Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
10.  Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.
11.  Name your dog "Dog."
12.  Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep
them tuned up."
13.  Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."
14.  Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training."
15.  Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for
"violating your airspace".
16.  Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot."
17.  Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss.
18.  Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
19.  Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the
appearance of ignorance.
20.  Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with the prophesy."
21.  Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with
the impression that you'll be saying more any moment.
22.  Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings.
Borrowed from an anonymous article entitled, “101 Ways to Annoy People.”
"Every man is guilty of all the good he
did not do."  Voltaire
"Be yourself;
everyone else is
already taken."
Oscar Wilde
Cow Taming
The Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki wrote: “To give your sheep or
cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.” In
other words, the more we try to clamp down on our awareness
and force it in a particular direction, the more resistance we get.
But if we give our thoughts and feelings plenty of space to romp
around in, they begin to tire themselves out and settle down, all
on their own. In practical terms, when you sit down to meditate,
say something to yourself like, “I welcome all that I am into this
sacred space.” Sometimes this is not easy.
Counter
Harry Stack Sullivan wrote:  "Man is much more simply human than otherwise."
In understanding what I am trying to say you will have to discard the notion that it is something you have known all the time, which
just happened to get well formulated by me. We are really up against one of the most difficult of human performances -- organizing
thought about oneself and others, not on the basis of the unique individual me that is perhaps one's most valuable possession, but on
the basis of one's common humanity.
Always do what you are afraid to do.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a child I was much more afraid of shots,
than, for example, dracula.  Dave Barry
This is Bear, a Staffordshire terrier (AKA pit bull). One of
the  funniest, smartest, and most affectionate dogs your
professor ever encountered. Use your critical thinking skills
to reflect on why this is considered the most dangerous
breed of dog in the United States.
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Here is a link to an wonderful survivor
sharing her inspiring story of healing and
offering lots of hope to sufferers of
PTSD:

http://relievingptsdsymptoms.wordpress.com/
"Although the world is full of
suffering, it is also full of the
overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
"Because a fellow has failed
once or twice, or a dozen
times, you don't want to set
him down as a failure till he's
dead or loses his courage--and
that's the same thing." -
George Lorimer
"Hope...is the
companion of power,
and the mother of
success; for who so
hopes has within him
the gift of miracles. " -
Samuel Smiles
"Groundless hope,
like unconditional
love, is the only kind
worth having."  -
John Perry Barlow
"Only reason can convince
us of those three
fundamental truths:
without a recognition of
which there can be no
effective liberty:  That
what we believe is not
necessarily true; that what
we like is not necessarily
good; and that all
questions are open." - --
Clive Bell - (1881-1964)
- Source: Civilization,
1928
"History is an account
mostly false, of events
mostly unimportant, which
are brought about by
rulers, mostly knaves, and
soldiers, mostly
fools."--Ambrose Bierce,
American writer,
1842-1914
"The search for the truth
is the noblest occupation
of man; its publication is
a duty." - Anne Louise
Germaine de Stael     

"There are only two
mistakes one can make
along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and
not starting." -- Buddha
"It is preoccupation with
possessions, more than
anything else, that
prevents us from living
freely and nobly." —
Henry David Thoreau
You must work - we
must all work to
make the world
worthy of its
children. --  
Pablo Casals
"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing
each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples
build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and
resistance."  - Robert F. Kennedy
"Do the thing you fear,
then the death of fear is
certain." -  Brian Tracey