/lit/ - Literature

>>16906146
>There is nothing wrong with psychoanalysis or finding out about your past as long as you don't confuse knowing about yourself with knowing yourself. The five thousand page dossier is about yourself: the content of your mind which is conditioned by the past. Whatever you learn through psychoanalysis or self observation is about you. It is not you. It is content, not essence. Going beyond ego is stepping out of content. Knowing yourself is being yourself, and being yourself is ceasing to identify with content.

>>16888298
>Forgive yourself first. Don't become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Release it and let it go. Move on.