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...
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The everyday sense of self is created by limiting the ways which we have of seeing the world; it is created by ‘a restriction of awareness', in other words. We...
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‘One who is seeking a reward is never free' says Krishnamurti, and this statement can be extended to the whole of purposeful behaviour. When we seek to achieve our purposes...
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It's worth going through all the ‘disadvantages' of living on our lives on the basis of the I-Concept. It is worth going through these disadvantages quite thoroughly because not only...
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Our starting point in this discussion was to repeat what Jung says about the cause of ‘mental illness' being the avoidance of our legitimate suffering. ‘Legitimate suffering’ can be looked...
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This whole business of needing to be validated, needing to ‘prove ourselves' in some way (or needing to ‘be approved of') comes from one thing and one thing only –...
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According to Carl Jung, all mental illness is the result of all of ‘the avoidance of our own true suffering'. What Jung said or didn't say actually carries very little...
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There are two types (two radically different types) of therapy and yet we only ever hear of the one type and this in itself ought to be enough to arouse...
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One way of talking about mental health is to say that the ‘key' (which we never see!) is not to interfere with what's going on. It's not sufficient to merely...
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Life is an ongoing movement into the unknown and no matter how many times this might occur to us, it's never going to seem commonplace. No matter how many times...
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Whenever we think or feel that things shouldn’t be the way that they are then we create the self. Whenever we resist something we create the self. This isn't to...
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As we get on with our life, getting involved in whatever it is we are getting involved with, our main business – whether we realise it or not – is...
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