Self-Knowledge
Childhood Matters, Unfortunately!
One of the more distinctive, and at the same time irritating – even maddening – habits of the modern world…
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Serenity
Haikus and Appreciation
We have known how to be calm all along; we’ve just never before been so intently asked to imagine ourselves into feeling so.
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The Call of Calm
This is where we long to be, this is what our hearts crave, this is where we have been trying to get to all our lives.
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What Would Paradise Look Like?
Even if we are hard-core atheists, we should learn to ask ourselves what our particular version of a non-spiritual ‘paradise’ would be like – and take regular imaginative rests there for a time.
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Self-Knowledge
Why Knowing Ourselves is Impossible – and Necessary
One of the greater paradoxes of being human is that we must live within minds whose folds and depths we…
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Making Friends with Your Unconscious
One of the great discoveries of the 20th century was of a region of the mind universally now referred to…
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Mechanisms of Defence
Getting to know ourselves better sounds, on the surface, like a project we might all buy into. But this is…
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Self-Knowledge
The Always Unfinished Business of Self-Knowledge
Whatever our commitment to self-knowledge, we have no alternative but to go to our deaths having understood only a fraction…
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How to Live More Consciously
We want – almost all of us – to live as long as possible. But in our urgent and never-guaranteed…
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On Always Finding Fault with Others
The problem with trying accurately to identify the behaviour known as fault-finding – defined as an obsessive need to focus…
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Calm
The Causes of Obsessive Thinking
For some of us, today like every day, will mean another case of immersing ourselves, from the moment we wake…
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Leisure
How Psychotherapy Might Truly Help Us
There can be considerable confusion as to why exactly it might be helpful to visit a psychotherapist. Typically we might…
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Self-Knowledge
Why Knowing Ourselves is Impossible – and Necessary
One of the greater paradoxes of being human is that we must live within minds whose folds and depths we…
View
Self-Knowledge
Making Friends with Your Unconscious
One of the great discoveries of the 20th century was of a region of the mind universally now referred to…
View
Self-Knowledge
Mechanisms of Defence
Getting to know ourselves better sounds, on the surface, like a project we might all buy into. But this is…
View
Self-Knowledge
The Always Unfinished Business of Self-Knowledge
Whatever our commitment to self-knowledge, we have no alternative but to go to our deaths having understood only a fraction…
View
Self-Knowledge
How to Live More Consciously
We want – almost all of us – to live as long as possible. But in our urgent and never-guaranteed…
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Self-Knowledge
On Always Finding Fault with Others
The problem with trying accurately to identify the behaviour known as fault-finding – defined as an obsessive need to focus…
View
Calm
The Causes of Obsessive Thinking
For some of us, today like every day, will mean another case of immersing ourselves, from the moment we wake…
View
Leisure
How Psychotherapy Might Truly Help Us
There can be considerable confusion as to why exactly it might be helpful to visit a psychotherapist. Typically we might…
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