Extracts from Steven Harrison’s book “Being One” ISBN 0-9710786-5-3
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We join a religion where we can agree with everyone about what God is, how to worship, what is right and wrong. We are relieved, we are free of our addiction, we are no longer separate. Then we walk by the other church or temple where we see the others believing something different. We are glad we went to our church, that we believe what we believe, that we worship the “right” god. Does this separation from those others who have chosen the “wrong” faith give us some small measure of security? The addiction is back, the addiction of separation. – pg 38
pg 67
Psychology has massive tomes filled with the symptoms that indicate each one of its diagnoses. Like a tabloid journalist with a adeadline, the psychologist finds the story, whether there is one or not. …- pg 91
The conflict is existential. It is the friction between the bundle of ideas we call our self and the actuality of the boundarylessness of the world. – pg 92
We don’t demand of psychology that it resolve this pain for us once and for all. That would be asking too much. And psychology doesn’t demand of us that we resolve this pain one and for all. That would be asking too much. – pg 93