We Can't Change The Past, So We

This, Perhaps, Goes To Show That Conditional Self-esteem, As I Have Said For Many Years, Is An Insidious, Real Sickness, So Much So That Even Buddhists Carelessly Sneak It In And Sometimes Encourage Their Clients To Achieve It.

People And Things Do Not Upset Us. Rather, We Upset Ourselves By Believing That They Can Upset Us.

The Goal Of All Life Is To Have A Ball.

I Thought Foolishly That Freudian Psychoanalysis Was Deeper And More Intensive Than Other, More Directive Forms Of Therapy, So I Was Trained In It And Practiced It. Then I Found That It Intensively Went Into Every Irrelevancy Under The Sun - And That It Didn't Work. People Got Insights Into What Was Bothering Them, But They Hardly Did A Damn Thing To Change.

I Would Have Liked Having Children To Some Degree, But Frankly I Haven't Got The Time To Take The Kids To The Goddamn Ballgame.