I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' , but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal, enlightenment, exists, I have had to search, and it is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end."
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Postmodernism is an intellectual dead end; it’s central premise seems to be derived from a saying of Nietzsche’s, “There are no facts; only interpretations”, which is thought to mean that each one of us views “reality” through our individual perspective. This is true to a degree, but as with so many aphorisms, there are limits to its validity;
In Ali bin Ridwan's book Kitâbü’l-Kifâye fi’ṭ-ṭıb (Sufficient Knowledge on Medicine), he has illustrated the point that the beating of the heart is closely related with the psychological factors of the mind. The method of his history taking and examination is strikingly modern. He would ask the patient questions to assess his state of mind and behaviour.
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Ibn Sina made full use of his deep knowledge of human psychology in curing patients. Once, a young woman suffering from paralysis of the arms was brought to him for treatment. When he came to know that she did not respond positively to the earlier treatment given to her, he applied a psychological device and asked her to stand in the presence of the people assembled about him. He suddenly removed her evil and caused her to blush deeply. Then he proceeded further and raised her clothes over her head. The young lady instinctively lifted her arms to pull down her garments and was cured.
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Ibn Sina also prepared drugs that were useful in the treatment of melancholia, hypertension and palpitation of the heart. Similarly, certain drugs were prepared and prescribed by him to go give strength to the heart by warding off gloom. Likewise, he considered love as a psychological disease. A full chapter in his Canon is devoted to the physical conditions of the body afflicted with this disease.
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Ibn Sina has clearly pointed out that the physical health of man is closely related with his inherent and acquired psychological emotions. He further revealed that much of natural disposition of the mother is diffused into her children through breast-feeding. He, therefore, advised that the breast-feeding mother should keep herself on a high level of morality, and that she should remain unaffected as far as possible by bad emotions caused by anger, fear, grief, and cowardice.
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Ishaq b. İmran applied and recommended psychological methods of treatment also such as their entertainment through pleasant conversations, music, gentle behaviour and sight-seeing as well as massaging their bodies with soothing oils followed by their baths. Besides, he has clearly pointed out that the disease of melancholia is both acquired and hereditary.
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Ali b. Rabben et-Taberî has developed the idea of using clinical psychiatry to treat mentally ill patients. He has described psychological diseases as diseasesof the head. Headache, loneliness, forgetfulness, hallucination, gloom and cheerlessness are their main symptoms.
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"The Calvinistic doctrine of predestination was only one of several possibilities. But nevertheless we have become convinced that in its way it had not only a quite unique consistency, but that its psychological effect was extraordinarily powerful"
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"The fact is that Lutheranism, on account of its doctrine of grace, lacked a psychological sanction of systematic conduct to compel the methodical rationalization of life"
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"The Puritan, like every rational type of asceticism, tried to enable a man to maintain and act upon his constant motives, especially those which it taught him itself, against the emotions. In this formal psychological sense of the term it tried to make him into a personality. Contrary to many popular ideas, the end of this asceticism was to be able to lead an alert, intelligent life. the most urgent task the destruction of spontaneous, impulsive enjoyment, the most important means was to bring order into the conduct of its adherents"
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"It's pointless to bury psychological wounds - you have to air them out so they can scar over."
"Psikolojik yaraları gömmenin bir anlamı yok; yara izi kalsın diye onları açığa çıkarmak gerekiyor."
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"I define SM as the knowing use of psychological dominance and submission, and/or physical bondage, and/or pain, and/or related practices in a safe, legal, consensual manner in order for the participants to experience erotic arousal and/or personal growth."
