‘Very few of us know the taste of authentic things’, says Ouspensky. We're given substitutes and so - therefore - we never suspect that we have been short-changed. This isn't to say that we're doing well on these substitutes of...
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The myth of the institution is that it exists to serve the needs of the individual person - the unpleasant truth behind the myth is that it exists to serve the needs of the 'institutionalized person', which is to say,...
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Our understanding of what constitutes ‘mental well-being’ is skewed because of the way in which we automatically assume that most of us are – in an essential way - ‘orientated towards the truth’. This might sounds like a reasonable enough...
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The everyday self is forever playing the Waiting Game - that is its fate, that is its unalterable destiny. This doesn't particularly sound like a lot of fun of course, and it isn't! The fate of the everyday self (or...
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