Psychiatrists and Gurus

On May 23, 2010, in patient-doctor relationship, by Lockup Doc

 

“Everyone wants to tell you what to do and what’s good for you. They don’t want you to find your own answers, they want you to believe theirs. I want you to stop gathering information from the outside and start gathering it from the inside.”

from the Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

Photo by h. koppdelaney

Progress.

Inevitably it means change and supposedly inventing better ways of doing things. And as a society we’ve done just that. But there have been side effects.

Since we’re more “human-doings” than “human-beings,” we’ve focused on utilizing our advances to cram more work into our day instead of using our new-found efficiency to create more time to spend with our families and friends and to pursue volunteer and recreational activities.

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