“In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality...”

“All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its nega...”

“Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people t...”

“In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the quest...”

“We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with...”

“Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like th...”

“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.”

“Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle...”

“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high auth...”

“In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality...”

“Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that...”

“Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self.”