Whatever isn’t visionary is diversionary

It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and...

Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of ‘Failure of Will.’ Depression is not a choice.

Diversion is pernicious to depressives. Our lives are like waking dreams–correction, nightmares–where monsters chase us, never breaking off pursuit in order to rest or to eat or to look for easier prey. Diversion prevents us...

Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do they keep coming back, but they’re bigger and stronger each time they return....

Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.

Diversion weakens thy mind.

The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that, like a gymnast or a ballerina, you’re contorted to such outrageous limits –...

Any diversion from that, even rooted in principle, interferes with that goal,

It’s a challenge to manage it appropriately. We want to manage ourselves as efficiently as we can to serve the needs of the community and it can become a challenge. We certainly don’t like to...