We stretch everything we can stretch, hoping thereby to get the maximum amount of ‘good’ from it. We keep on stretching it (or ‘milking it’) until we can't stretch it anymore, and that's when things start to go pear-shaped on...
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There's no such thing as ‘a framework within which we could grow’, no such thing as ‘a logical context within which we can thrive and realize our potential’. Within the framework (which equals 'the reality that we have been provided...
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The lives of mortal men are nothing more than entertainment for the gods, (or at least so it was said in ancient Greece, back in the days where gods were presumably more of a ‘thing’ than they are now). The...
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All systems are the same system, just as all bullies are the same bully, just as all abusers are the same abuser. If you know one, then you know them all; if you have ever had insight into how one...
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The danger in playing at being a machine is of course that we will lose sight of the fact that we are only playing. Machines don't have a concept of play, after all. A machine is quintessentially ‘black and white’...
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How does one go about ‘leading the purposeful life’? What is the best and most effective way to do this? Although it is pretty much standard (in motivational-speaker type circles, at least!) to boldly declare that ‘a purposeless life is...
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We are - in this high-tech, super-rational world of ours - as far away from understanding psychosis as we could ever be. We have lots to say about it for sure, we have all sorts of different types of medication...
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The mind’s version of meditation isn't really meditation, it's just a cheap copy. It’s not the same thing at all. The mind only deals in systems and meditation isn’t a system. Meditation isn't a system and the state of meditation...
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There is a state of mind in which everything becomes all about ‘gaining rather than losing’. This is - needless to say - a state of mind that we’re all very familiar with. It's perfectly legitimate to be concerned with...
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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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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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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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Being present isn't a task. Being present isn't a task because that is where we are (or how we are) anyway. There isn't anywhere else to be, no other place exists. Being present can’t be a task because there’s nothing...
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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. Managing our thinking just isn't going to work, not ever. The reason we can't manage our thinking in the way...
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Is it possible for us to live within the grooves that have been set out for us to live in, prepared in advance for us to live in, and yet be fulfilled and at peace? On the face of it,...
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Playfulness comes out of ‘a place of plenitude’, it comes out of a place where there is ‘already everything’, so to speak. When we are acting out of fullness (as opposed to acting out of deficiency) then this may be...
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