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William Faulkner famously observed, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

For over 40 years, the level of therapeutic improvement measured in randomized controlled trials and meta-analytic reviews has consistently been a change of about one standard deviation in the mean score on outcome measures, which represents merely a 20 to 25%. Any occurrences of transformational change in outlier cases within an RCT remain invisible and buried under the overall statistical analysis of the data.

If you know someone is watching you all the time, doesn’t that make you a little uneasy? Being observed by anybody—including your own Self—can make a person so self-conscious that it would be hard to do anything right.

Psychologists often speak of the ability to establish trust as one of the hallmarks of the mature person.

“imagination is more important than knowledge”
—Albert Einstein

I remember, at a discussion-group meeting, a man made a statement and a little later, he said the exact opposite. Another man pointed this out to him, accusing him of being inconsistent. And he replied, “So? Where is it written that a human being must be consistent?”

Your chest feels like an elephant is sitting on it. You can't breathe, or else you breathe too much