In the ‘neurotic’ conditions what has happened – across the board, for every single condition – is that our attempts to ‘fix the problem’ have become a far bigger problem...
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Our default setting for understanding both neurotic and psychotic states of mind is the ‘error paradigm’ – we see what is going on in terms of an error to be...
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In the ‘conditioned world’ where no one is permitted true existence, the only way we can gain ‘being’ is to be granted it. The only way we can be granted...
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Anxiety occurs when we send out a 'robot-self' into the world to do some sort of task and that robot self gets cut off from its source (somehow) and so...
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Whenever a distortion (or 'bias') is introduced into the picture the universe (by which we mean ‘the Totality of Everything’) unfailingly offers the ‘correction’ to this distortion (or 'bias') in...
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The clearest and most essential way that we have of understanding neurosis and neurotic suffering of all kinds is to say that it arises as a direct consequence of the...
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It is interesting to notice what our attention is stuck to during the course of the day. One thing that is very interesting straightaway is to notice the way in...
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Our modern approach to what we so glibly call ‘mental health’ is the biggest farce going! Never in the course of human history has there been a more nonsensical and...
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We come out with all sorts of impressively sophisticated theories to explain anxiety – it is as if we hope to frighten the anxiety away through being so very clever...
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To be ‘successful’ in the game – whatever game that might be - means that we have to have pain inside. This is an essential part of it - that...
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Everyday life is an exercise in ‘serious pretending’ - we start off not being serious but then – inevitably – we fall into a type of insidious seriousness that we...
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What is this thing called ‘happiness’? We recognize it when we see it alright but we nevertheless have no end of misleading ideas about it. We are full of erroneous...
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