Tools and strategies, using the terms in the way they are used in therapy (or what is called ‘therapy’) are essentially ways of creating the self. That’s what a ‘tool’...
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The problem with ‘letting go stuff’ (in the psychological sense) is that there’s actually nothing there to let go of. Because there’s nothing to let go of, the act of...
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The only thing that really matters is escaping from the prison of the self. How could anything else matter? Yet this also happens to be the one thing we never...
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The Extrinsic Self is the self that always resists reality, the self that has to resist reality. The Extrinsic Self is generally the only self we know, the only self...
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When we get cut off from the core of who we are then we become the helpless prey of external mechanical compulsions. We could also say – if we wanted...
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Equilibrium states of consciousness are - in effect – tortuous. To wake up and be faced with yet another day full of nothing but an unrelieved E-state of consciousness (in...
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Mental health can be thought of as a way of talking about how much autonomy we have in our relationship with the world. This is a fairly obvious statement, once...
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The regular everyday thoughts that come to us every day – and keep on coming on a never-ending basis – what use are they to us? What good do they...
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Pain or discomfort puts us under pressure to create the self - it sorely tempts us to create the self. As soon as we create a self this provides with...
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Only in stillness can we know ourselves. If someone were to ask, what’s the big deal with stillness, why would we bother with it (particularly when it can be so...
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‘Stickiness’ comes about because of the way in which we hold on in an absolutely unquestioning way to a basis which is utterly and completely nonsensical. We are absolutely unwilling...
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In the normal everyday state of mind that we find ourselves in most of the time, there is no awareness that there are things which are concealed from us; we...
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