“I am not fond of psychological interpretations. Or psychologizing about problems in life habits or situations. At all. Here’s the problem. The fact is that you are stuck in narratives which are explicitly destructive renditions of minor aspects of reality. Do we -really- need to spend years finding out which narratives you are addicted to and making new ones, which basically re-stages the whole problem for the next developmental phase? Or do we want to -completely get rid of that entire habit- insomuch as it represents a compelling trap? The latter, I think. Stories are just stories. We need to get -all the way past- identifying with them. That doesn’t happen so well by getting new ones, or diagnosing ourselves into the future. Feel your body. Feel your feelings. Your breath. Stop following and obeying the narrative. It is not you. It is not the world. Breathe. Feel that? Did that tell you a story? No? Good. That’s you. No stories; a breathing body. If you want to wear them later, as clothing or jewelry, fine… but don’t become a sock or necklace — and if you did, why try to become a shoe or a wristwatch? Take them off. Those apparitions -:are not you:-; they are figures rising in the often ghostly mists of emotional thought.”

— overheard overhead