The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought, ‘What the hell good would that do?’ – Ronnie Shakes

I have always been fascinated by the law of reversed effort. Sometimes I call it ‘the backwards law’. When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float … Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure … contrariwise, salvation and sanity consist in the most radical recognition that we have no way of sa

‘The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with much more calm than the one he is headed for.