Constructive Living (Kolowalu Books (Paperback))

Feelings are uncontrollable directly by the will.

That’s the ultimate goal of Constructive Living—to help you do everything well, with full attention.

The mature human being goes about doing what needs to be done regardless of whether that person feels great or terrible.

Feelings fade in time unless they are restimulated.

The TōDō Institute allowed the time for writing, reflection, and

Action—in the present—changes the future. A trip of ten thousand miles starts out with one step, not with a fantasy about travel.

We change only by changing the now. That is all we have to work with. What I do now is me and molds who I will become tomorrow. Make no mistake, there is no other time. The whole rests on what I do now.

The major limitation of active expressive therapies in the West—the ones that attempt to get the patient to relive childhood traumas, to act out childhood impulses and desires—is that it is not “me-then” who is birth-screaming or shouting rage at my father or drinking unlimited malts. It is “me-now.” And the “me-now” can’t see or feel or think as t

Discomforting information is only discomforting when it gets through the filters of awareness and pops up in the middle of the spotlight of consciousness. In other words, we only hurt when we notice that we are hurting.