We live our lives on the basis of ‘always trying to maximize the self's gratification'; or as we could also say, we live our lives according to the dictates of...
There are just two things we can do with reality – decomplexify it (which takes positive action on our part) or not decomplexify it (which takes no doing at all)....
The sense that we have ‘self-efficacy' is an illusion, pure and simple. We might perceive ourselves to possess this thing that we call ‘self-efficacy' but that's just a little trick...
When we are ‘psychologically unconscious' then we are invariably ‘insincere in everything we do’. Sincerity is an impossibility for us (which is a bit of a killer if there ever...
We are constantly creating worlds for ourselves – that's our thing, that's what we do. We might of course think that it is ‘things in the world' that we are...
Consciousness means sussing onto the fact that my existence – such as it is – is a deterministic old business. I think I’m free but I’m not. I'm compelled to...
There are two completely different ways of looking at life (or we could also say that there are two completely different ways of living life). One way is when we...
The most tremendous possibility of all is closed to us – this just happens to be the direction we never ever look in. We make a point of never looking...
When we come across that pure essence of reality, says Chogyam Trungpa, then we are irritated by it. We are irritated by it because we aren't able to interact with...
The self never could bear any existential difficulty and it never will be able to – that is simply not its department. There are lots of things the self can't...