The basic ‘invisible contradiction’ in society is that we can’t be accepted on the basis of who we’re not, and yet it is only by pretending to be who we’re...
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Society is a set-up wherein our natural ‘free’ impulses to do things, or behave in whatever way, is replaced by insidious ‘have to's. We are in other words obliged to...
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When everything gets flipped around to the POV of the unreal mind-created self then reality gets to be seen as an error. We don’t or care to know any more...
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All our troubles start the moment we identify with a finite self. There’s really no way things can work out for us once we do this – no way at...
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Tools and strategies, using the terms in the way they are used in therapy (or what is called ‘therapy’) are essentially ways of creating the self. That’s what a ‘tool’...
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Everything that happens is just what happens – no one does it, no one makes it happen. There's no real 'doer' whose responsibility it is to 'get it right'. Causality...
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, we are always busy creating the equilibrium zone. This is our Number One activity, our Number One occupation. We can do this one our...
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The problem with ‘letting go stuff’ (in the psychological sense) is that there’s actually nothing there to let go of. Because there’s nothing to let go of, the act of...
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When we are under pressure to change things within the terms of a particular frame of reference then – whether we are successful in our task or not – this...
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From the Western tradition of rational philosophy, pondering the nature of existence seems like a perfectly valid thing to do! To analyze reality is seen as being an entirely legitimate...
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The only thing that really matters is escaping from the prison of the self. How could anything else matter? Yet this also happens to be the one thing we never...
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‘Maybe I’m nothing but a shadow on the wall’ sings David Thomas in Heart of Darkness, echoing (after a fashion) Plato’s words from some two thousand years earlier. This of...
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