Category: Perception

Excerpt from “The Courage to Be Imperfect,” a speech by Rudolf Dreikurs

I have found many, many who try so hard to be good. But I have failed yet to see that they have done so for the welfare of others. What I find behind these people who try to be so good is a concern with their own prestige. They are good for the benefit of…


Self Acceptance

Self -acceptance means we stop suffering by our own hand.  Sometimes suffering is just that. Nothing more or less. Nothing to learn, nothing to get, nothing to do… something that makes us all human. Of course, that is not wallowing in it, but there is place for compassion — for self and for others ……


How can we be perfect and have so many shortcomings?

Before I begin, I want to dismiss some semantic arguments about the notion of shortcomings. I am of the opinion that we are indeed perfect. So how is it possible to be both perfect and have shortcomings? Actually, we don’t have shortcomings (as most people define them,) but if I started there, I wouldn’t have…


Past, Present and Future

Our memory of the past is just what we say it is.  We feel like we have a video machine in our head, with an accurate recording of past events.  But what we really have is what we say happened.  In any case, what happened to us doesn’t really matter; it is only the meaning that we place on what we say happened that…


How does the brain make sense of our world?

The subconscious mind must first sift through an average of ~2,000,000 bits of data per second to select “important” data and screen-out “unimportant” bits of data.  (“Important data” is defined as anything that supports what I have already experienced and “made sense of” — My Maps of the World). The amount of “Raw Data” that…