Nothing is more denying of the individuality than the generic self. This is of course a very obvious statement to be making; it's an obvious statement to be making but...
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One way of talking about mental health is to say that the ‘key' (which we never see!) is not to interfere with what's going on. It's not sufficient to merely...
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Life is an ongoing movement into the unknown and no matter how many times this might occur to us, it's never going to seem commonplace. No matter how many times...
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Thought is a game, and a highly engrossing one at that. It's a game, but it's also a losing game. Thought is a losing game and can't ever be anything...
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We don't love the truth, we love ‘fitting in' and that is a totally different proposition. It's not just that the truth' and fitting in' are different propositions, the one...
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Whenever we think or feel that things shouldn’t be the way that they are then we create the self. Whenever we resist something we create the self. This isn't to...
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Patience is a great thing, but we can't be expecting patience from a machine! Machines always exemplify the exact opposite principle – machines always ‘want' the next thing that is...
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The everyday self is a task that we continually have to work on. We don't usually think of it as a task, but it is – it's like a heavily-laden...
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The ‘great task’ in life is not, as we might assume, a positive one. As a rule, we feel that if we are not doing something positive in life (which...
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The movement toward security (or rather, the movement towards perceived security) is always a movement away from meaning. Eventually, when we travel far enough down the path that (supposedly) heads...
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As we get on with our life, getting involved in whatever it is we are getting involved with, our main business – whether we realise it or not – is...
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Whenever we ‘assert a definite value’ (or whenever we ‘make a positive statement’) we inevitably create the Virtual Compulsive Environment. Alternatively, it could be said that whenever we act purposefully...
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