How can I set right a tangle which is entirely below the level of my consciousness? By being with yourself …by watching in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there. You encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies by understanding the nature of life and mind. Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence
Nisargardatta
The Trauma of Being Alive. “Trauma is not just the result of major disasters. It does not happen to only some people. An undercurrent of trauma runs through ordinary life, shot through as it is with the poignancy of impermanence.”
Ann Bradney in a podcast on becoming radically alive.
The Mental Illness Paradigm: Itself an Illness That Is Out of Control. “We flood an individual’s brain with an array of highly toxic chemicals designed to make it through the brain’s natural blood-brain barrier and impact this extraordinarily complex and fragile organ in a ridiculously blunt and haphazard manner, and we call this ‘treatment.’ Can we really be surprised that such treatment so often results in converting natural and transient crises into lifelong chronic ‘illnesses’?”
