‘Living life in the wrong way', to borrow Lawrence Durrell's phrase, is where we spend all our time feeding the mechanical reflexes that live in us and turning our backs...
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When we’re having a bad time then this – as Greg Tucker says - proves (apparently quite definitively, too) that we exist and so this is a good thing. It's...
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Positive therapy is where we say (or assume) that we can obtain mental health (or freedom from mental restriction and suffering) deliberately, in a rational and purposeful way. There is...
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Identifying with the concrete sense of self is a irreversible process, a process that works one way but not the other. We can check in but not check out, in...
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The self is always 'incorrigibly rigid' in its nature; we can say that the self is 'incorrigibly rigid' because it is bound by its very nature to protect certain beliefs...
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The greatest and most insidious danger that we face in life is a danger of our horizons narrowing down and narrowing down without us noticing what is happening, until we...
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Our goals are not important to us in the way that we think they are (and say that they are), our goals are important to us because we use them...
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Wherever we truly see the world around us, as if we are seeing it ‘for the very first time', then we are seeing from a ‘non-equilibrium position’. And conversely, when...
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Anxiety is always the result of us trying to ‘protect the thought-created idea of ourselves’. This means that we are ‘coming at things' from the wrong angle, so to speak;...
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Nobody really understands this thing called ‘mental health’ – we talk about it an awful lot but we don't have a clue what we're talking about! The problem is that...
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No matter what it may like to think, the rational mind does not ‘rule' the psyche! To be sure, it constantly tries to do so, and very often it may...
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Aggression can only exist in relation to our own projections. If we can understand this then we can understand a lot! With regard to our own projections we are always...
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