I'm The Result Of Upbringing, Class, Race,

The Whole Culture Is Under Terrible Pressure And Fraught With Worry. It's Hard To Get Out Of That Box. That's The Dominant Situation All Over The World.

Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were Good With Numbers. Other Kids Used To Copy Your Homework. You Figured Store Discounts Faster Than Your Parents. People Came To You For Help With Such Things. So You Took Accounting And Eventually Became A Tax Auditor For The Irs. What An Embarrassing Job, Right? You Feel You Should Be Writing Poetry Or Doing Aviation Mechanics Or Whatever. But Then You Realize That Tax Collecting Can Be A Calling Too.

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).

I Am Not Caused By My History-my Parents, My Childhood And Development. These Are Mirrors In Which I May Catch Glimpses Of My Image.

You Know, People Come To Therapy Really For A Blessing. Not So Much To Fix What's Broken, But To Get What's Broken Blessed.