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Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it.

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On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings. The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and what is the place ten seconds ahead? There is nothing there. It's very odd.

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It just isn't the way you've been told. Let me give you an example: Time makes no sense. It really doesn't apply to me; it doesn't fit. My hair gets thin and I can't stay up all night the way I used to. But I don't change...

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So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.

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The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.

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Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.

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Arthur J. Deikman

Arthur J. Deikman

Born: September 27, 1929
Died: September 2, 2013 (aged 83)
Bio: Arthur J. Deikman was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Human Givens. He was also a contributor to The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
Known for:
  1. The Wrong Way Home (1990)
  2. Evaluating Spiritual and Utopian Groups (1988)

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