Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.