Saw a guy reading a book and writing notes in it. Not enough words in there for ya bud ?

When I was a kid and it rained people would say "great weather for ducks" which bewildered me as I always thought it was a complete non-sequitur. Older and wiser I totally understand. A duck would love this shit

The human psyche, like human bones, is strongly inclined towards self-healing. John Bowlby

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. ~Erich Fromm

Very interesting study below that affirms something I’ve long felt (and wrote about this past winter): understanding our physical selves as interdependent assemblages rather than independent entities is key to grasping the full implications of ecology

Hearing rumblings that Japanese researchers have synthesized a cure for hantavirus that, thankfully, can be replicated abroad by having a tall Sapporo in a sunny backyard or roof

Teaching a parrot Hey Soul Sister and releasing it back into the Amazon so all the creatures of the rainforest can hear it

Some might say this is derivative or cliche but I think a bear stealing honey is a timeless classic

the most powerful wizard in all the land: i am here to save you, you poor fool of a king. your mind is being poisoned my trusted advisor grimey snakelips: we cannot trust him, my lord. send him away me (not listening + playing games on my tablet): youre right grimey

Four givens are particularly relevant for psycho-therapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life. Irvin D. Yalom

presence is the philosopher’s stone everyone’s been looking for.

Intuition mogs metacognition Somatic awareness mogs metacognition

Cormac was on a different level man

Watching my girl yell at the server because there’s tomatoes on my sandwich and I said no tomatoes

Passed a man whose shirt read "I found love in Niles, Illinois." My heart lept. Romance had triumphed yet again. I turn, and see plastered across the back "And it was only 200 bucks!" Ah. Nothing but a cruel mockery. This bitter cynicism will save no one.

John Titor #137 𓅊𓅔𓅊 What’s that Robert Anton Wilson quote ah yes “The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.”

I became a psychotherapist because I so love the imagination. William Blake says: “The Imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself” For me, psychotherapy is essentially an affair of images – of how we imagine and, more important, reimagine ourselves.~Vannoy Adams