Leaving Your Work at Work

Taken from, On Being A Therapist, 75

We do the best we can within the limits of the systems of care we work with. We can't allow our work to consume our lives.

-Laurence

Ernest Becker on Going to the Source for Wisdom

Taken from, The Denial of Death, xx

This is a great point of wisdom. To get the best understanding of a person's philosophy, read their actual words and ponder the message yourself, coming to your own conclusions as to its value.

-Laurence

Ernest Becker on Why Death Troubles Modern Man

Taken from, The Denial of Death, x ii

This is an interesting observation, especially with the rise of neo-atheism, it will be interesting to see if the denial of death increases within the culture. Perhaps a return to ancient traditions, even while opposing modern conceptions of truth and reality would alleviate modern man's anxiety in considering his inevitable fate.

-Laurence 

St. Augustine of Hippo, First Developmental Psychologist

Taken from, The Confessions, Book 1, 8

This text is written in the context of a monologue, and some would say dialogue, with Augustine's God. He is recounting his experience in his early childhood and trying to make sense of his development. Much of the work of Psychology is the reflection of ideas as it applies to your own experience of the world around you and the bidirectional interaction between the two, the self and the environment.

-Laurence