We Dull Our Lives By The Way

...you Find Your Genius By Looking In The Mirror Of Your Life. Your Visible Image Shows Your Inner Truth, So When You're Estimating Others, What You See Is What You Get. It Therefore Becomes Critically Important To See Generously, Or You Will Get Only What You See; To See Sharply, So That You Discern The Mix Of Traits Rather Than A Generalized Lump; And To See Deeply Into Dark Shadows, Or Else You Will Be Deceived.

Love Alone Is Not Enough. Without Imagination, Love Stales Into Sentiment, Duty, Boredom. Relationships Fail Not Because We Have Stopped Loving But Because We First Stopped Imagining.

One Strand Of Psychotherapy Is Certainly To Help Relieve Suffering, Which Is A Genuine Medical Concern. If Someone Is Bleeding, You Want To Stop The Bleeding. Another Medical Aspect Is The Treatment Of Chronic Complaints That Are Disabling In Some Way. And Many Of Our Troubles Are Chronic. Life Is Chronic. So There Is A Reasonable, Sensible, Medical Side To Psychotherapy.

We Would Like Otherworldly Visitations To Come As Distinct Voices With Clear Instructions, But They May Only Give Small Signs In Dreams, Or As Sudden Hunches And Insights That Cannot Be Denied. They Feel More As If They Emerge From Inside And Steer You From Within Like An Inner Guardian Angel. . . . And, Most Amazing, It Has Never Forgotten You, Although You May Have Spent Most Of Your Life Ignoring It.

Just Stop For A Minute And You'll Realize You're Happy Just Being. I Think It's The Pursuit That Screws Up Happiness. If We Drop The Pursuit, It's Right Here.