The more we try to 'fix' self-obsession the more obsessed we become and there is absolutely no way around this. If I try to be less self-obsessed I become more obsessed I become instead. This is why so much that passes for spiri...

When we come into this world we aren't given unconditional 'permission to be', we are given conditional permission, which means that we have to spend all our lives trying to meet these conditions...

We live in a world where everything is about power (i.e. the ability to move other people without being vulnerable to being moved oneself) and this power - for the most part - works invisibly.

"We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will." - Simone Weil

To belong to a group we must conform to its rules, but this means we are 'putting the rules above ourselves', and doing this leaves us 'wide open to being abused and exploited by the system'...