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but it is like the force of a river being pulled toward the sea.

I wish I had a book that I could put in her hands, and it helps her learn what many never learn, or learn too late, namely, that the possibilities are much bigger than you think, that you can live more deeply, and truly, and that you can solve almost any problem if you put your mind to it. A book about how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and... See more

Cognitive Therapy has often framed thoughts as the cause of emotions. Emotions found in anxiety and depression are thought to be generated by logically fallacious thoughts which, once corrected, would have a positive effect on one’s emotional state. But it often misses the reverse process in which thoughts appear as a retroactive justification... See more

He speaks about Tarot at a couple of points. My search of the collected works was taking too long to point out exactly where, but it’s much the same as with the I Ching, which, if he hadn’t written the foreword to the Wilhelm-Baynes translation, we his readers and students would never have known too much about how he viewed it. So, I think we can... See more

"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor,... See more

It’s amazing how many people buy stuff or eat just because they are bored. Boredom has become the most expensive emotion of our time, an invisible tax that empties wallets, fills closets, and adds kilograms. What people mistake for hunger or desire is often just the absence of purpose, a restlessness looking for a cheap thrill. If you can learn to... See more