If you try to copy my journey, you will not be following it, for that is not where my journey began. Go on your own journey, wherever it takes you. Right now, I'm going to eat. My eating will not fill your stomach.
Barry Stevens - Don't Push The River
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I glimpsed one aspect of the split in me
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There is no way that I can make myself do it.
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There is no way that I can make myself do it.
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I am my own doing.
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Right now, I'm going to eat. My eating will not fill your stomach.
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To shoot point-blank at a flying bird
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Our view of the therapist
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How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?
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When I try to be helpful, I have the idea of helping.
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I let others use me only in ways I want to be used.
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It is when I don't think - then I am most responsive to others
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'Because'
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I like ice cream very much. I didn't want it.
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I am working to release myself.
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The problem of good and evil
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Holding myself to the obvious
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The old have-to/want-to mix-up
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How do you research?
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How simple it is when I stay with what I know
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Rehearsing
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I am not all there
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Feeling sluggish doesn't have to be unhappy.
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If I grieve about it, I hang onto it
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The only trouble is, there are fantasies.
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Noticing and responding
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Gestalt uses fantasy to negate fantasy.
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Any attempt to change is bound to lead to failure.
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Fantasies are useful sometimes
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I imaged the Zen story
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The more I try, the more I fail
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Don't demand of me what I haven't got.
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I'm such a coward.
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Then I tried to force an image.
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Being helpful is robbery.
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That crane-like bird didn't make himself.
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Awareness is getting in touch
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I don't have a plan which I carry out step-by-step.
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When I have 'come to my senses'
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Roles assigned by language
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When a tree is falling in my direction, I run.
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Suppose this is all nonsense?
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You just do things
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Why didn't you tell them?
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When there's no other way, that's the only way there is.
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I would like to know what that's about
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Trying to make more so acts in the same way as trying to make less so.
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The organism does not make decisions.
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A theory is never reality.
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In the world I came from, everyone was different from himself.
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Conventions
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It's when we become mixed up with the future and the past
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When I submit to what ego says I'm still ego.
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At least, I have got rid of 'I have to'.
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When I get rid of my own pushing of me,
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