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Book cover for Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain, 2nd Edition
The stories we develop about our lives and ourselves can be deadly to our mental health because we start to interpret random events in a biased way.
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Joyce Rachelle
“Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.”
Joyce Rachelle

“Give me the child for the first seven years and I'll give you the man.”
Jesuit maxim

John C. Lilly
“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experientially and experimentally. When the limits are determined, it is found that they are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind, there are no limits. The body imposes definite limits.”
John C. Lilly, The Deep Self: Consciousness Exploration in the Isolation Tank

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I asked the boy beneath the pines.
He said: the Master’s gone alone
herb picking somewhere on the mount,
cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown.”
Chia Tao

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