quote, on the limits of psychotherapy

"Psychotherapy is a powerful tool for many issues, but it takes discernment to know what can and cannot be addressed in therapy. Analyzing problems innate to being born as a human may be akin to handing a shovel to someone caught in a pit, when what is really needed is a ladder. To recognize insecurity as a fact of human existence—and not evidence of shameful shortcomings—helps relieve ourselves of the unrealistic expectation that it is a problem we should be expected to solve, and allows for a different way of encountering, holding, and opening to this as a reality..."

http://www.lionsroar.com/therapy-can-only-go-so-far/?utm_source=Lion%27s+Roar+Newsletter&utm_campaign=953e857166-LR_Weekly_May_16_20165_16_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1988ee44b2-953e857166-22284457&goal=0_1988ee44b2-953e857166-22284457


http://www.lionsroar.com/this-life-which-is-wonderful-and-evanescent/?utm_source=Lion%27s+Roar+Newsletter&utm_campaign=953e857166-LR_Weekly_May_16_20165_16_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1988ee44b2-953e857166-22284457&goal=0_1988ee44b2-953e857166-22284457

on consciousness and memory, quote, found in net

".....what consciousness and memory are about: an awareness of something that is not directly perceived. Consciousness brings more to perception than exists in the present stimulus – it creates something that is not there – and in doing so it helps us make sense of our environment. And so does art.."

http://www.alice-anderson.org/documents/THESCIENCEOFPERCEPTIONBYISRAELROSENFIELD.pdf

M.T. Von Paradis ,Sicilienne, Itzhak Perlman, Jacqueline du Pré