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Oh Emma.
You and I would be the weirdest couple ever, but I love you. (We share a birthday, three years apart)
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The therapist’s task should not be a proselytizing of the patient with his own beliefs and understandings. No patient can really understand the understandings of his therapist nor does he need them. What is needed is the development of a therapeutic situation permitting the patient to use his own thinking, his own understandings, his own emotions in the way that best fits him in his scheme of life. (Milton Erickson)
Psychotherapists cannot depend upon general routines or standardized procedures to be applied indiscriminantly to all their patients. Psychotherapy is not the mere application of truths and principles supposedly discovered by academicians in controlled laboratory experiments. Each psychotherapeutic encounter is unique and requires fresh creative effort on the part of both the therapist and patient to discover the principles and means of acheiving a therapeutic outcome. (Milton Erickson)
How Netflix streaming changed date night
Jeff and I have had Netflix, separate and together, for at least 3 years now. Recently, in an effort to save a little money, we went to streaming-only. It’s $7.99, which is much, much cheaper than going to the movies, and there’s no one in our bedroom to talk, kick our seats, or sit too close for comfort.
Recently, we watched the move “Arranged,” which is about two teachers in a New York City school. One is a conservative Muslim, and the other, an Orthodox Jew. They bond initially because their students assume that they can’t be friends because of their religious differences, and they work to expand the students’ understanding of religious and cultural differences. They also bond over their “dates,” who have been chosen by their respective parents as potential marital partners. It’s a lovely movie, with funny and genuine moments, and we watched it mostly because it was available and looked interesting. ;-)
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Often the moment when we most need to pause is exactly when it feels most intolerable to do so. Pausing in a fit of anger, or when overwhelmed by sorrow or filled with desire, may be the last thing that we want to do. Like the high-altitude pilots, letting go of the controls seems to run counter to our basic and instinctual ways of getting what we want.
The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, ‘Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.’ When we look directly at the bandaged place without denying or avoiding it, we become tender toward our human vulnerability. Our attention allows the light of wisdom and compassion to enter.
We seem unaware that choices and options might exist. When we are in the trance and caught up in our stories and fears about how we might fail, we are in much the same state. We are living in a waking dream that completely defines and delimits our experience of life.
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I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever “fixed” at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound. To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.
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