Dr. Linda Berman

Now on waysofthinking.co.uk The Wonderful Joy of Anticipation: Why Life Feels Brighter. By Dr Linda Berman 🎨Emil Brack - Planning the Grand Tour. Late 19th century. Wikimedia Commons #anticipation

Angels and demons are mythological names for constructive and destructive powers of being, which are ambiguously interwoven and which fight with each other in the same person, in the same social group, and in the same historical situation. Paul Tillich

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. Paul Tillich

To overcome our sense of loneliness is a life long pursuit. Let us not despair in its pursuit! Paul Tillich

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation. Paul Tillich

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free. Henri Matisse

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. Andre Maurois

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. paul tillich

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich

@gardnerstuart39 🤗🙏

@LindaBerman4 I was the catholic school boy walking home on a Friday and there is a beautiful synagogue in Sunderland. I asked could I come in...of course you can so I did lovely really.

I wonder what you can do about antisemitism. I had a Jewish guy who was my boyfriend once in London who was lovely with me. I am not sure you can understand antisemitism until you are at least know Jewish people. Ok my experience is different in Newcastle but we need to sort

"The first duty of love is to listen." Paul Tillich

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." Aristotle

@gardnerstuart39 Thank you. You’re much appreciated. x

@LindaBerman4 That's the thing if you are afraid. I can't stop the anti Semitic people, All I can do is to try to protect my Jewish friends x

@gardnerstuart39 It’s very scary. I find it so good to hold onto those people around me and online, like you, who make me feel less afraid of all that is happening with their clear insight and love. 🙏

@LindaBerman4 Dr I remember with you in the Manchester murders. There's some things deeply wrong if you can't walk down the street being Jewish and going to synagogue and just doing something like going to work. I don't understand this hatred.

@h0m3r83 Indeed.

@LindaBerman4 Similarly, Rogers' unconditional positive regard can be practices by anyone, anywhere. Listening without judgement costs nothing, but is invaluable.

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia

@gardnerstuart39 Yes this violence and hatred is all so awful, Stuart. 😢

Out this violence to Jewish people and the violence and it's hate speech. It could have been me walking non Jewish walking in the street with my boyfriend. @LindaBerman4

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else’s childhood. Hanif Kureishi

…to love is to like, approve of, and support another’s real self and to encourage the other to activate, express, and nurture that real self. James F Masterson

"The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity." Erich Fromm #insecurity

“I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.” Irvin D. Yalom

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka