Michael S. Fingerman, LMFT, LLC

12/25/2024

I like this! I really really like this.

"When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey."
Wendell Berry

Koichi Okada - Moon Over Tama River, 1940.

10/03/2024

This sounds right.

“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.”

— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

Photographer: Issei Suda

08/02/2024

Just sayin’.

07/24/2024

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02/15/2024

Highly recommend.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi ❤️

10/03/2023

https://youtu.be/q-TK6_aWqGU

Highly recommend you give this a listen.

https://www.humancondition.com/learn-more/ | Acclaimed British actor and broadcaster Craig Conway’s astonishing interview with Jeremy Griffith about his bre...

09/23/2023

Makes you pause and appreciate time.

09/06/2023

Forgiveness is not a matter of exonerating people who have hurt you. They may not deserve exoneration. Forgiveness means cleansing your soul of the bitterness of ‘what might have been,’ ‘what should have been,’ and ‘what didn’t have to happen.’ Someone has defined forgiveness as ‘giving up all hope of having had a better past.’ What’s past is past and there is little to be gained by dwelling on it. There are perhaps no sadder people then the men and women who have a grievance against the world because of something that happened years ago and have let that memory sour their view of life ever since.”

Rabbi Harold S Kushner

09/03/2023

Change the world, change your mind.

All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it."

Albert Einstein
Artwork - Water Dancing By Rob Gonsalves,

07/26/2023

"For Freud, the pursuit of happiness is a distraction from living. It would be better to aim for something different -- a type of life in which you do not need a fantasy of satisfaction in order to find being human an interesting and worthwhile experience... Human beings are more likely to find ways of living well if they do not spend their lives aiming to be happy."

--John Gray