The message the system keeps on giving us is not simply that it's ‘OK for us to spend all our time fully engaged in utterly trivial pursuits’ (which is to say, to say, meaningless pursuits) but that it is ‘right’...
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There are only two ways in which we can be - two distinct states of being that are open to us - and to say this is not to indicate that there is a ‘spectrum' where one end imperceptibly shades...
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We say that a human being ‘has a mind’. The truth is the other way around for almost every person you will ever meet. When you meet another person you’re not meeting a human with a mind, you're meeting 'a...
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Being ‘addicted to thought’ means being ‘addicted to control’ and being addicted to control means that we’re forever going to be going around in circles. Thought can never depart from the basic assumptions that it is founded upon, control can...
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When we think we are playing a game with boundaries - we are saying that one thought is different to another. This is ‘a game’ because it simply isn't true - the boundaries are only made-up things, they're only there...
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Who is the thief? What does he rob? Who does he rob it from? These are all questions that we fail to see any significance in. These are all questions we don’t ask. We fail to see the significance of...
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In the Superficial World nothing means anything; people simply don't mean what they say - it's all just for effect, it's all just for show. That's what the SW is - a show. We infer that there's something more behind...
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Wherever we go and whatever we do, we create ‘closed systems’ for ourselves to live within, for us to operate within. This is a bit of a redundant thing to say of course since closed systems are the only kind...
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The Abuser Mind gives you yourself, your identity, your ‘world’ — it gives you your everything. The Abuser Mind gives you the game that you have to play; it controls you, not because of what it tells you, but because of...
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We'd have to be utterly deranged to let someone else tell us what reality is, and yet we do that as a matter of course. We do it every day - we wouldn't think of not doing it. There practically...
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Heteronomy is the perfect antithesis of mental health and yet it is also ‘the order of the day’. It is also ‘absolutely obligatory’. If we're not in the Heteronomous State then by definition there must be something wrong with us,...
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We all get drawn into the Grey World, one way or another. We can't help it - there is a current that inexorably pulls us in, in such a way that we don't ever notice. We're caught in this massive,...
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Our ‘job’ (in everyday, routine life) is to both observe the description of things that we have been provided with and defend / enforce them. This - it is implicitly understood - is our sacred task. It has to be...
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Psychology in the West addresses itself to the identity, to the ‘formalised notion of who (or what) we are’. We can’t think what else it could possibly be about. It addresses itself to the purposeful ‘doer’ or ‘actor’ – the...
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When we are ‘orientated towards a centre’ then we are blind to the world that really is all around us (which is the world that doesn't have a centre, the world that doesn't have any rules) and – instead –...
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The point isn't to fight the monkey mind and beat it or subdue it by a mixture of willpower and expedient means, which is how we automatically understand it. What we are pleased to call ‘willpower’ is merely our automatic...
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Life isn't to be found within the drab and dreary confines of our crappy mental categories. It does not comply with our regulations; it can't be prevailed upon to even recognise them. Thought builds a pen or enclosure for life...
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Instead of life, we're given a package, a game, and this package / game is made up of two aspects: [1] the aspect that we are supposed to see and believe in, and [2] The aspect which we are not...
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