Why Do We Focus So Intensely On

How Can We Know Ourselves By Ourselves? . . . Soul Needs Intimate Connection, Not Only To Individuate, But Simply To Live. For This We Need Relationships Of The Profoundest Kind Through Which We Can Realize Ourselves, Where Self-revelation Is Possible, Where Interest In And Love For Soul Is Paramount.

Why Do We Focus So Intensely On Our Problems? What Draws Us To Them? Why Are They So Attractive? They Have The Magnet Power Of Love: Somehow We Desire Our Problems; We Are In Love With Them Much As We Want To Get Rid Of Them . . . Problems Sustain Us -- Maybe That's Why They Don't Go Away. What Would A Life Be Without Them? Completely Tranquilized And Loveless . . . There Is A Secret Love Hiding In Each Problem

My War - And I Have Yet To Win A Decisive Battle - Is With The Modes Of Thought That And Conditioned Feelings That Prevail In Psychology And Therefore Also In The Way We Think And Feel About Our Being. Of These Conditions None Are More Tyrannical Than The Convictions That Clamp The Mind And Heart Into Positivistic Science (geneticism And Computerism), Economics (bottom-line Capitalism), And Single-minded Faith (fundamentalism).

Depression Opens The Door To Beauty Of Some Kind.

Instead Of Seeing Depression As A Dysfunction, It Is A Functioning Phenomenon. It Stops You Cold, Sets You Down, Makes You Damn Miserable.