Coming Out Of The Trance Of Denial

Good Therapy, Gently But Firmly, Moves People Out Of Denial And Compartmentalization. It Helps Clients To Develop Richer Inner Lives And Greater Self-knowledge. It Teaches Clients To Live Harmoniously With Others And It Enhances Existential Consciousness, And Allows People To Take Responsibility For Their Effects On The World At Large. For Me , Happiness Is About Appreciating What One Has. Practically Speaking,this Means Lowering Expectations About What Is Fair, Possible And Likely. It Means,finding Pleasure In The Ordinary.

When Europeans Arrived On This Continent, They Blew It With The Native Americans. They Plowed Over Them, Taking As Much As They Could Of Their Land And Valuables, And Respecting Almost Nothing About The Native Cultures. They Lost The Wisdom Of The Indigenous Peoples-wisdom About The Land And Connectedness To The Great Web Of Life...we Have Another Chance With All These Refugees. People Come Here Penniless But Not Cultureless. They Bring Us Gifts. We Can Synthesize The Best Of Our Traditions With The Best Of Theirs. We Can Teach And Learn From Each Other To Produce A Better America.

We Live In A World Filled With Language. Language Imparts Identity, Meaning, And Perspective To Our Human Community. Writers Are Either Polluters Or Part Of The Clean-up Team. Just As The Language Of Power And Greed Has The Potential To Destroy Us, The Language Of Reason And Empathy Has The Power To Save Us. Writers Can Inspire A Kinder, Fairer, More Beautiful World, Or Invite Selfishness, Stereotyping, And Violence. Writers Can Unite People Or Divide Them.

When One Of Us Tells The Truth, He Makes It Easier For All Of Us To Open Our Hearts To Our Pain And That Of Others.

I'm A Perfectly Good Carrot That Everyone Is Trying To Turn Into A Rose. As A Carrot, I Have Good Color And A Nice Leafy Top. When I'm Carved Into A Rose, I Turn Brown And Wither.