We can't be authentic on purpose – that is a profound impossibility. The harder we try to be real the more fake we become! We could also put this the other way around too and say that we can't stop...
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To not extend the system, to not project or promote the system, is very difficult. It's very difficult because there's no precedence for it – originality is required. Precedence means that we've got tracks to run on, it means that...
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When we have an idea of what's going on then what this means is that we're disconnected from the reality of what's going on. When we know who we are then we're alienated from who we really are. The conceptual...
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A Complex Reality is one which cannot be accounted for by only one level of description. In fact, no matter how many levels of description we have we can't account for a complex reality. We could just cut to the...
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There is one, very good reason why our prized psychological therapies can't ever work and - what's more – it’s a reason that's perfectly easy to understand. The problem isn't that we're not able to grasp it, the problem is...
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Before we can engage in any sort of purposeful (or deliberate) activity we first have to assume a ‘context of meaning’ to act out of. We can't impose any sort of order on the world unless we make some sort...
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The worlds we create for ourselves with our thinking are unreal worlds. They have no depth to them; they are wholly superficial. However grand. however splendid it all might seem (and it can seem very grand, very imposing, very splendid)...
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The ‘me’ bends everything to make it be about it - this is the distortion that is created by the self. The world isn't all about the ‘me’ however and so what happens later is that this distortion - because...
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If we are quiet enough (or still enough) in ourselves then what we find is that an uncanny sense of otherness creeps into our lives – ‘otherness’ being a way of talking about the vast reality which is out there...
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How does neurotic mental pain remind us of who we really are? This is an odd question because we don't experience neurotic suffering as reminding us of anything of the sort! On the contrary, we experience neurotic pain as preventing...
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There is a very big problem with all our attempts to create effective psychological therapies and this problem comes about because of the way in which we are entirely incapable of differentiating between ‘what our culture says is true’, and...
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Linearity is simply a trick or gimmick, nothing more - it's a trivial affair, not a profound one. Having said this, we still have to acknowledge that it seems pretty nontrivial to us as we actually experience it - it's...
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We don't understand what ‘a game’ really is, even though we think we do. A game is a game we say, it's where we all pretend something is true when it isn't. What more is there to be said than...
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Any action that proceeds on the basis of a fixed centre (any action that happens out of a definite position) is always going to come back to where it started. What this means therefore is that if we start off...
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The one thing we can't ever do is ‘manage our thinking’, despite what we might be told to the contrary. This just isn't going to work. The reason we can't manage our thinking in the way we think we can...
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We might say that meditation is all about being aware of our thoughts rather than being sucked up in them, but what we can't say is that the goal of meditation is ‘to be aware of our thoughts without getting...
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Just as Kierkegaard says, ‘If you judge me you negate me’, so too we could say ‘If you have an image of me you negate me’, and the funny thing about this is that no one in this world interacts...
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There are two types of reality, not just the one, as we might think. There is the measurable or quantifiable type, and there is the type that can't be measured, the type that can't be quantified, the type which we...
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