To think is to create a finite game. To think is also to create a self which is going to play that finite game – the finite game and the...
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When we convert everything into the Domain of the Known (which we do just about every moment of our lives) then the Radical Unknown, now in deep disguise, controls us...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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