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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Our outer nature is an inversion of the inner. We could even go so far as to say that the ‘outer’ and ‘inner’ natures belong to ‘two different worlds’ and...
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The only genuine (i.e. ‘non-fake') type of joy is the type of joy that comes when we discover that what we thought was true, actually isn’t true at all! This...
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When we meditate we don't do so for profit – on the contrary, we meditate out of our ‘actual integrity as human beings'. ‘Doing things for profit' and ‘doing things...
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'The human condition', says Eckhart Tolle, is that we are ‘lost in thought'; we could equally well say that our default condition is that we are ‘obsessed with nonsense'. Being...
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Institutions inflict violence on reality. Institutions commit violence on reality (we might say) because they ignore the subtlety of reality completely – they act as if reality were not ‘what...
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