Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

It’s a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it’s not...

The process is important, regardless of the outcome, just ask Schacter.(…)mental health… is not a destination but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going. The therapist is like a driving instuctor,...

…here we have the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep. On the other hand,...

…knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That’s why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen.

[…] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep.

The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself...