Posted by likelife on March 3, 2003, at 16:06:01
In reply to My literal mind can't grasp this., posted by Dinah on February 28, 2003, at 22:35:20
It seems to me like therapy gets bogged down in contradictions like these, which have the tendency to drive me crazy. The following is only tangentially related, but it made me smile:
Reality is what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is what we believe.
What we believe is based on our perceptions.
What we perceive depends on what we look for.
What we look for depends on what we think.
What we think depends on what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we believe.
What we take to be true is our reality.The Dancing Wu Li Masters (gary zukav)
It makes perfect sense to me, and at the same time, absolutely no sense, which seems to be true of a lot of "therapeutic constructs." I'd like to have the courage to press these things with my therapist, but I never get very far before I concede she is right, even though I probably still disagree. It sounds like you are able to call your therapist on a lot of things though, and i would encourage you to do so in this case too.
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